We went to see the Nutcracker for the 4th year in a row and had another magical time. It was so sweet to see them come home, put on their dress-up clothes, and run around outside being a…
An afternoon in the life of a sweet 4 year old boy. He is sometimes such a challenge for me with the occasional tantrum, whining, pestering of his sister, breaking things (really just checking out how they…
You might think they were more excited to have the iPad home than their dad upon his return after a week at sea, especially when the first words out of Cedar’s mouth were, “Dad, can I play the…
A few iphone photos of several of our latest Christmas activities: tree decorating, setting up nativity pieces, this year’s advent calendar (decorated envelopes strung on a ribbon with cards inside for daily Christmas activities), salt dough ornament making,…
We ventured out to find some woods recently and found that this definitely ain’t Montana, but there are woods to walk in and beautiful things to enjoy here in Jacksonville. We had a full day together of driving,…
… is windy and rainy this week– cold enough for pants (for me, not for anyone else in my family) and even sweatshirts– at least until it gets back up toward 80 degrees next week. Crazy warm for…
During our family’s recent trip to the Museum of Science and History here in Jacksonville, we got to see and learn about quite a lot of things. Like dinosaurs, whales (one cool thing to know is that humpback…
It’s fun to live in Florida where life is abundant all around us. Today on a family jog we saw an armadillo (what it is we still don’t know, but looking it up will be a good family…
After days of deliberating and mind-changing, our little ones decided to dress up as a skeleton and a ‘nice’ witch for Halloween. The whole family joined throngs of other costumed children and parents on the streets, and we…
