Ashton brought out an armful of big cardboard boxes along with containers of ribbon, paper, pipe cleaners, glue, and glitter. She declared that she was going to make and decorate a fairy house. Ahem… glitter? On giant cardboard…
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…
I think the green blanket showed up as a gift when Ashton was born, and you can see by the photos below that it has remained an important piece in her life. We have supported Ashton fully in…
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,…
I was thinking about asking Ashton soon if she’d like to work on copying pictures from books, but she went ahead and did it before I even had a chance to mention it. When she is excited…
I hope you those who received these knits as gifts won’t mind my sharing them, but I’d like to tell what I’ve been doing with a lot of my time this month, and I like that this blog…
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…
