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,…
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…
