I snapped these three photos in rapid succession last Sunday while we were at Kristin 's house for Gavin's birthday party . Such ...

Again this month I am joining Donna's Personal Photo Challenge , and this month the focus is light.  I am fascinated by how much l...

I have told you that this is the time to "uncomplify" ...this season of enough . So this is not the year that I will t...

When The Nester ( home blogger and the annual 31-days hostess ) wrote her own series in October, she invented a crazy wonderful new word....

(Can we really have been grandparents for eleven years already?) B irthday blessings to an exuberant eleven-year-old! Happy Birthday,...

It is the time of year that we think a lot about gifts. (Who is on my list? What has been checked off?Would she like this? Can I find that...

Belated birthday blessings to a charming three-year-old! Happy Birthday, precious Peter! (We are so happy to have spent your birth...

November was fallen leaves and walks through the woods and a twentieth birthday celebration . November  was  visitors and a l...

With grateful hearts, we gathered on Thursday, in the midst of this season of "enough." Some of our number were recovering f...

Oh my. These past few months have brought ups and downs, rejoicing and weeping, strength and weakness, joy and sorrow...all, I believe, fr...

Although many of my "favorites" are prone to change (favorite hymn, favorite poem, favorite book), my favorite holiday is pretty...

Christmas tunes on the piano...sweet voices singing Apples to Apples...Hershey Park-opoly visitors...conversation...coffee perking...

At the end of a very busy week filled with emotional ups and downs and highs and lows and too many to-do's, I overslept this morning ...

We have been thinking about a kitchen island for a long time. That's kind of how we operate. L-o-n-g thinking-it-over/mulling/consid...