Icy breezes, dumping snow, sledding, warm sunshine, melting snow, rain and warming temperatures… this has been a winter of changing.  And so it is for us, too…changing every day. It seems like the last six…

I was thinking about asking Ashton soon if she’d like to work on copying pictures from books, but she went ahead and did it before I even had a chance to mention it.   When…

I hope you those who received these knits as gifts won’t mind my sharing them, but I’d like to tell what I’ve been doing with a lot of my time this month, and I like…

In the Jones house we are spending a portion of this winter authoring and illustrating books.  Well, mostly Ashton is.  I have helped by stapling paper together into several simple books and typing/printing the dictated…

Sunshine, sparkly trees, crunchy snow, and happy children.  Beautiful things, indeed. Wishing us all a holiday of peace, gratitude, and beauty.    …

Matt and I recently created, for our daily advent calendar, a family activity around drawing.  We thought it would be neat to draw our stories and experiences about Christmas.  The picture we made was of…

The Christmas spirit is rolling right along over here.  I sewed some simple felt stockings, which I am going to send off to my mom after Christmas to be embellished with her masterful handwork.  Ashton’s…

I read about making borax crystal ornaments and thought they seemed so simple, interesting, and pretty that we should make some ourselves.  It was a Christmas craft and science experiment in one.  We bent pipe…

The Nutcracker has been a big story theme in our home for several years, so I enjoy taking them to see the ballet when it comes around this time of year.  Ashton has not held…

I am telling myself that everyone already knows about shrink film, but I only recently found out about it here and I think it is the neatest thing ever.  So amazing to watch a big…