calm cookies

This past week has been filled with quite a bit of chaos. New puppy craziness, less time to work or sleep, children with fevers,  a broken dishwasher. When life gets like this and I feel the chaos starting in on me I always find calm in the kitchen. My sweet friend Lesley often leaves cookies [...]

Birdie Love

We spent the weekend basking in the joy of a new puppy. So happy to have little Birdie home with us for keeps. Hope you all had a wonderful weekend too.

more hearts

This week’s theme at Small Fancy is “something I’m looking forward to“….

knitting makes my heart happy

I’ve been in a bit of a knitting funk this last little bit, but knitting these little Valentine’s presents for the girls helped get me out of it. Now all I want to do is knit! The free pattern for them can be found here. (link via Soulemama ) I decided to not felt them, but did [...]

paper plate portraits

Sosi made these paper plate portraits of me and Paul. Paul is looking a little hairy, and I’m challenging my inner Annie. :)  I love them!