January has come and gone. That means spring is a mere month-and-a-half away, friends. Believe it! (Incidentally, does anyone else feel a little gypped this winter? I mean my snowshoes have fallen into a state of depression.) Anyway, in an … Continue reading →

So, Jim recently ran some search engine tests on our little site here, to see what search words are bringing ya’ll in. High up on the list is: “Camo tub.” Also, anything to do with “metopic synostosis”, “trigoncephaly”, or “cranial … Continue reading →

This is proof that he actually does sleep. This post is nothing more than a sanity check for me. But hey, CUTE SLEEPING KID. Lately, he has taken to sleeping with his hands laced behind his head, all Ferris Bueller-like. … Continue reading →

Lately I’ve been working on getting Bastien to recognize a color other than pink. Any color. I do not know where the pink thing comes from and it is cute. BUT. Last time I checked, there was a whole world … Continue reading →

She had such dainty little feet for so long, I thought she’d escaped a couple of my less attractive genes. Yeah. Not so much.

Thankfully, they are all still alive and cute (very much so!). Here’s Heidi. And Carly. The kids. And the whole shebang. This was perhaps my favorite of Jim’s shoots to-date because it came with a heaping helping of home-made mac … Continue reading →

Last weekend, Jim overheard the following: Bastien: “Toot.” Bastien: “Big Toot!” Bastien: “Uh-oh.” Sigh.

A slice of orange in our water Taco soup (Jim added onions) Tastefully Simple’s Beer Bread Circadian Rhythm bedtiming (7:00!) Short haircuts Musicmakers Elizabeth Zimmerman’s Tomten sweater pattern A midweek babysitter for a midday run A quickie 15-minute back rub … Continue reading →

Ugh, I really cannot stand that pun. But just look at this picture..it cannot be denied. Bastien and I found this plastic army guy in our yard last summer. And I swear to you, he’s logged a good 20+ hours … Continue reading →

The only time Bastien wears a diaper anymore is at night. Which really is pointless because he always wakes up dry anyway. So, I’m shipping off half of his set of Bum Geniuses to little cousin Zelie. My SIL uses … Continue reading →

We had the honor of meeting our newest niece this weekend. Isn’t she darling? Somehow she sort of looks like she’s 14 already, though at our time of meeting she was only 9 days old. Her namesakes include St. Therese … Continue reading →

A little something I like to call “Good-husband-in-training”.

I write tonight with anticipation greater than a kid before Christmas. In just twelve short hours, there will be someone else cleaning my house. This is like a dream. I am LIVING THE DREAM. So I have had to use … Continue reading →

I made a couple of hats for the holidays that I am mildly proud of. I feel compelled to show them off because they were not miserable failures (quite unlike the fingerless mitts I am currently working on for my … Continue reading →

And she’s not afraid to use them.

Let’s go on a shopping journey, you and I, to check out all the things that are my very favorite right now… Slathering my fair & chapped-skinned kids in the most luxurious (and equally obscenely priced) Dream Cream from LUSH … Continue reading →

Just for the record, Bastien is famous. He receives fan mail all the time. Ok, by all the time, I mean twice. But that is once per year. And I bet that is more fan mail then you’ve ever received. … Continue reading →

It seems I’ve been collecting a lot of cute memories around here and should probably write them down before they’re forgotten. 1. Whenever you ask Bastien “how many?” the answer is “Eight!”. For example, last weekend while we were waiting … Continue reading →

We like to call it the “Pot Chocolate Method”. PS. It works!

The making of… And the final product: PS. This post might just as easily have been called “abusing your babies in the frigid woods”. But hey, tradition cannot be messed with!

We hope you had a wonderful NYE. We sure did. Especially Bastien, who got to stay up until the weeeeee hours of the morning. And play with all of his favorite girlfriend/babysitters. I hope the happiness we rang in the … Continue reading →