Wednesday, April 22, 2015. When she was first born most of my newborn size clothes were hand-me-downs from babies who were not born in an Illinois winter. I layered what I could and took a lot of joy out of the crazy combinations that came out of that. I approached it the way I used to approach dressing myself - limited pieces, make it fun.

Saturday, May 16, 2015. 1 Saturday, 2 Birthdays. Avery has four cousins that live in the Puget Sound area, and two of them had birthdays this past week. Their birthday celebrations both happened to to be last Saturday, so Erik, Avery and I headed up north. How cute is the cake my mom made? And the watermelon dresses? It was a pretty great weekend for nieces and.

Saturday, November 30, 2013. I managed to get gifts for 4 people, for a reasonable amount of money, without fighting through crowds of people. Cub and I outside of one of my favorite local shops. SO happy that someone bought The House Cafe, a local favorite.

Monday, September 7, 2015. This summer was for wagon rides, cousin time, and corn on the cob on the grill. Frogs and toads and flower planting. Swimming lessons and turtle racing. Movie watching down on the river, summer reading program super hero costumes, and Darth Vader kite flying. Monday, August 17, 2015. Once upon a time I wrote a post.

Literary reviews from a budding critic. Thursday, September 15, 2011. Come join me over at larking.

They tell me it does. But for me, and my metabolism, and it does not work at all. For a while I sort of gave up. I just felt like nothing sustainable was going to work for me. This has been a constant for my whole life. And the extra energy to workout 4-5 ti.

Friday, January 6, 2012. I came across this amazingly beautiful story today as I was doing my daily facebook check-up.