Asanas with My Girl

As I was going through my yoga practice this afternoon, L4 became very excited about it when I was in a pose she hadn’t seen before.  She started asking, “Can I do that pose, too?”  I paused my practice to work with her little self.  When I resumed after helping her, she began to show [...]

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Signs of the Season: Baby Maples Trees

Every year they pop up through the ground, tender and green, but strong.  And every year I mercilessly rip them out, roots and all, before they grow too large.  They root everywhere!  Not just in the gardens, but ALL OVER the lawn, in pots, between the cracks on our stone pathways.  Even though the emergence [...]

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Sometimes I Wish I Were June Cleaver

Or L1, really.  Not because I’m all nastaulgic about that time, but because it would mean that my house was clean.  Someone is stopping by to pick up L4 today, and when she said so yesterday, it threw me into a bit of a panic.  Her house is pristine.  Mine is not.  There are always [...]

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Disaster Averted

The scene:  I had just put more wood on the fire and was about to sit down to lunch with L4 when from upstairs I here my sick little L3 shout out, ‘Mama, there’s a fire!”  I said, ‘Yeah?”  I was thinking yes, we have a fire going.  He continued with, “Mama, there’s a fire [...]

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It Figures

After a week of spring-like weather, this is what our first day of spring looks like:

Typical.
Happy Vernal Equinox, everyone!

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How My Garden Does Grow!

Saturday I planted a multitude of seeds.  Tuesday evening I noticed the heads of some of my broccoli peeping through the soil.  Yesterday morning they had emerged through the soil completely and I literally watched them grow throughout the day.  And here they are this morning:

The light is a bit off because I didn’t want [...]

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Signs of the Season: Lunch al Fresco

What a wonderful way to spend our lunch–out of doors! L4 was so excited that she didn’t want to sit down, but kept playing and building things instead of eating! After lunch she continued on and I knitted in the sunshine. L4 crept around staring at the green and color popping up out [...]

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Perfect Ending

My week of handmade ended in a lovely way.  As we were graced with warmer air and sunshine, I was able to work on new and lingering projects.  Though I have some “deadlines” for some of the projects, I decided that I wanted the opportunity to enjoy the process of the work rather than getting [...]

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Couldn’t Resist. . .

trying on Wisteria.  I’m so glad I did!  Seeing it on the needles, I wasn’t as in love with it as when I saw it on other people, and the cables weren’t popping enough for my satisfaction.  I am super excited to finish it because I loved the way it hugged my shoulders and felt [...]

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We Interupt This Craft Week to Bring You A Bad Mom Moment

Believe it or not, though I haven’t shared with you, I’ve been cruising along on my projects.  And I was all excited to get some good time in this afternoon while L4 was at preschool.  We arrived down there to see a big white sheet hanging on one wall of the room and then I [...]

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