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 stories. Below is…
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 decorated Christmas trees,…
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 been doing some…
I made this 2010 collage of facebook status updates and thought it seemed appropriate to share in this space. These are just a few of the highlights I reported through the year, just a snapshot really, but put…
Our weekend was full of ups and downs and highs and lows, as always. We did some Christmas crafting, some tree decorating, some knitting, some snuggling, a good bit of play in our first snow (a nice big…
Over the past few days we’ve been putting together what we think is a really cool project. The fact that it has been a multi-part project worked on over time has been very engaging, and has stimulated conversation,…
Yes, we do heart chocolate. Am I talking about our special weekly family trips (okay, multi-weekly) to the grocery store for a (er, two, because we really do need one dark and one white) chocolate bar? Or the way we…
