Glimpses Into Our Life

And the living is {very} easy…

What’s not to like about life when you’re reading The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun on the beach while your husband sits beside you keeping his eye on happy kids frolicking in the waves?Read the whole post >>

12 Days of Christmas in Pictures

{Hot Cocoa Cookies, the best cookies we made all season. HT: Hungry Runner Girl; recipe here.} {Someone has been working out…} {Pretend Mass with this beautiful Montessori Mass set} {Gaba and the girls} {Playing with our food} {Action shot} {Thank goodness for indoor swimming at the Family Y!} {She wants to be a vet whenRead the whole post >>

Giving thanks and Advent links

We celebrated Thanksgiving at Nana and Pop’s this year and on the way, I set my phone’s timer for five minutes and asked the kids to blurt out anything and everything they were thankful for and I then listed them in the exact order they were shouted out and also did not edit their contributionsRead the whole post >>

Better late than never

I had every intention of being prompt and posting Halloween and All Saints’ Day photos at the start of the week. You’d think that now that I’ve been resigned to a mostly sedentary existence because of that darn hamstring injury I’d have more time to blog (or clean or learn to sew or do somethingRead the whole post >>

Holy Batman!

Ah, the dog days of summer are nearly behind us. And I couldn’t be happier. Summer break? It was more like summer hell. Or at least summer purgatory. The living most definitely wasn’t easy. But easy isn’t always better. Thanks to this summer, we will have some great stories to tell for years to come.Read the whole post >>