Yes, a bilateral mastectomy is complete, reconstruction is in process, and recovery is happening. Thanks are in order for all the prayers, calls, cards, packages, and help. My aunt graciously spent the first week with us (half of…
There is a lot of stress happening around here at the moment as we are preparing for the next phase of change in our lives. After a diagnosis of breast cancer just before Christmas, lots of doctor visits…
Next up on the 50 Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do itinerary is… drumroll… #34: Deconstruct an Appliance. Actually, a camera we picked up from the thrift store, although we would like to deconstruct a blender or other…
Fifty Dangerous Things has officially begun here at the Jones house with #23: Break Glass. Sorry to break several of your mason jars, dear mother-in-law, but hey, when you gotta break glass you gotta use what you got.…
Awhile back, we watched a TED video called Five Dangerous Things You Should Let Your Children Do. The speaker, Gever Tulley, sold us on the merits of giving our children freedom to learn and explore, control and manipulate,…
Oh January, oh winter, will you please end soon so we can go outside and play? The wind here is bitter cold– too much even for us Montanans– so inside we will continue to stay for awhile. Even…
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 years, for us,…
