Family

With the addition of Abel, our kitchen suddenly felt very crammed- chairs and high chairs everywhere! I got it in my mind that I wanted a big table out in…

This year for Christmas stockings, the kids wanted to draw names and each fill another person’s stocking. They were most enthused about this idea, wanting to draw pictures and make…

Elsie vaguely remembered that she had started sewing a Christmas decoration while at Aunt Louie’s last year. So we dug out the fabric bins, got out the sewing machine and…

Ivar said to me this week, “Mom, I keep thinking it must be February or January, but then I remember winter just began” Oh brother! It honestly does feel that…

I have started keeping this page open on my laptop so when my kids say something worth remembering, I come to write it down verbatim. Elias woke up grumpy and…