The Sanctuary of Home
by Home. The one place we and our loved ones can slough off the day’s stresses and relax, regroup. My husband is yard foreman for a …
Month: July 2006
Picket Fences and Marriage
In a strangely generous gesture, I allowed my oldest two to wait up for their daddy last night. He didn’t get home till almost 11 …
Dinner’s in the Freezer!
Do you own a cookie scoop? You should. I love mine. For one thing, it makes cookie sizing a breeze for my young girls, not …
Little Girls in White Dresses
(This post published also at MInTheGap on July 20, 2006) Ring a bell? ‘Raindrops on roses, whiskers on kittens’…from “My Favorite Things” in The Sound of …
Ad-Libbing Read Alouds
We’re reading “Little Britches” by Ralph Moody…written in 1950…it’s like a Little House on the Prairie for boys…except my 8 yo loves horses so much …
Fireworks Downtown
The dispatcher’s SOS pretty much ruined the moment. But when a business downtown is fully engulfed, and your fire department is called upon, you do …