Iron Jawed Frustration

I just finished watching one of my favorite movies, “Iron Jawed Angels” in honor of the 88th anniversary of the 19th amendment. It’s amazing to me that our fore bearers had to fight so hard and so long for a liberty that so many today choose to ignore. When I watch this movie [...]

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Adirondack Peak Experiences

In no particular order, here are some of my peak experiences from our trip:

Watching Jasper learning to swim. Hilarious ,and eventually, beautiful.
Watching my beautiful feet (heheheh!) in the sun-rippled water

Observing the kids absorb all the wonders around them. Their awe helped renew my own.
A quiet morning canoe ride on Lake George with just [...]

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From Little Seeds They’ve Grown

I thought my next post would be more about our trip or about my Ravelympics project, but instead it’s about the garden. After unloading the car my first item of business was to head out to the garden. I was delighted to see that everything still seemed to be in tact. That’s [...]

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My Bliss: The Adirondacks

We’re back. It was wonderful, and we returned exhausted, filthy, but renewed from being to a place loved for so long but much too absent in our lives. I’m sure I’ll share more over the next few days, but for now you can see my bliss.

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Happy Birthday To Me

I am celebrating my birthday with a little sewing self-love. I finally made these pants for myself:

I bought the fabric in February, maybe March. I loved it so much that I didn’t want to just make PJ bottoms out of it. But I wasn’t sure what else to do with it, either. [...]

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Musings While Preparing Dinner

While making dinner and clearing clutter off of the counters, I glanced out the kitchen window. At the corner was a UPS truck.

Since I was a little girl the sight of that brown truck has quickened my pulse and brought a smile to my lips. Once I was acquainted with “The Music Man,” [...]

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August Buy Nothing Challenge: Week 1

Not too bad this first week plus a few days.  Here is the breakdown of where money went for the L house since August 1st:

food
bills
medical expenses (therapy for l3, massage for me as an alternative to getting surgery done on my carpal tunnel)
paid for our campsite for next weekend (though nonessential, I thought this fit [...]

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Paddling Around

In the spirit of making the most of summer, L1 threw the canoe on the car and we took the kids and dog canoing for the first time ever recently. (This is sad because we got our canoe as a wedding gift and we just celebrated our 9th wedding anniversary. Yes, and L3 [...]

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Let the Games Begin!

To coincide with the 2008 Summer Olympics, over on Ravelry is Ravelympics. The challenge is to start a project today and finish it by the closing ceremonies. There are a number of different categories, including WIPS Wrestling. I’m signed up for the Sweater Sprint event. Last night before bed I did [...]

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The Waning of the Days

There’s something about August in our family that brings a feeling of anxiety. Summer is almost over! There is so much that we wanted to experience still this season! And so it seems that every August we find a way to pack many different adventures into the last few weeks before school [...]

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