Our whole gang of cul-de-sac neighbors joined together for the Halloween tradition this year. We walked for hours in the neighborhoods here on base, and I realized this Mayport Navy community is actually quite small– through living on…
We’ve been to this tree many times, and have sort of claimed it as our own family tree. Because we love it so, the kids don’t complain on the walk there, and so we walk in fun and…
We went on a field trip with some of our homeschool friends to a local pumpkin patch. The kids loved it, got a story read to them, did a craft, learned some stuff, got a shaved ice and…
Until yesterday, we’ve been having 85 degree days here, mixed with some days of rain (which, with humidity, sure doesn’t feel any cooler). I walked on the beach on one of these warm days and found lots of…
We went on a wet, post-thunderstorm woods walk one afternoon, trying to get some “fall” feeling in our bones. The weather only just now cooled off a bit, so we can finally truly enjoy the outdoors and sunshine…
Our princess really is a princess now. Well, almost– she still needs a canopy first, which we are thinking of getting her for Christmas, and then she will be a true princess. The reason I know she is a…
They think about Halloween almost constantly, asking how many more days till it’s here, wondering about the candy they’ll get, wanting to put up decorations, checking out the other spooky houses in the neighborhood, thinking about their costumes,…
I remembered one thing we have been doing quite a bit of lately: enjoying the company of new friends. We were lucky to meet some families in our neighborhood, both of which are Navy families and both homeschool…
These are the “poses” he thought would make good photos of him and his missing teeth, so I obliged. He finally lost that other front tooth (the first one was pulled when he was 2), and oh my…
I’m afraid I haven’t been remembering my camera much lately, as it seems we’ve been recovering from surgeries and sicknesses for a few weeks now. That, being busy with this and that, and, well, sometimes I get uninspired…
