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Canning strawberry jam – you CAN do it
I few years back I never thought I would have been canning my own strawberry jam. I was a city gal when my first baby was born, in…
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The BLUE house reveal and repurposed front porch
It was a tough, tough decision for us to take our very dark brown house with classic yellow trim, straight from historic bungalow times, and do anything different…
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A Simple Moment
A Simple Moment, is a post that appears here every Friday. A photo I want to remember of a simple moment, with a few simple words. If you…
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A lesson in saying yes when I wanted to say no
When my seven-year-old was invited to a sleepover birthday party from her sweet friend who lives up the street, I thought it was a very nice gesture. You…
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Inside my toddler’s closet, how it works for her
I won’t call this a Montessori closet, because it is far from being textbook perfect. But my toddler can do everything for herself when it comes to getting…
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How-to sew a simple sleepover sleeping bag
My daughter was invited to her first sleepover birthday party and something inside me, all the sudden, wanted to send her off feeling confident and ready for a…