Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree, how barren are your branches!  ---- With kids in tow, and falling snow, the perfe...

:another family tradition: The annual hike to collect cedar and nature's supplies to create a rustic wreath together. ...

It's always at this time of year, usually after the first real snow fall, that I start hatching way too many projects in my head. T...

  The nest is filled with pink, tacky, girly-girl overboard vibes today. A certain lil' princess is turning 5 ... five!! The tom-...

Well hello again. For the two of you out there who may have thought we dropped off the inter-webs recently... well, we di...

* a berry good time indeed *  ------- Happy Canada Day/Weekend fellow canucks!  Mel ;o)

Hello friends, Things are getting a bit quiet around here since the rhythm of our days are pretty consumed with things like: playing ...

Soooo, do any other parents out there find the holidays hard to navigate ? As in: 'what message do we want our kids receiving...

It's New Years Eve. The familiar ' pops ' of cheap fireworks are lighting off around our neighbourhood. Bang! Fizzz.....

It is Sunday. All things are still. The world is in frozen wonder outside. White and shimmering like a crisp blank page... ... w...

  Can you keep a secret ?? Ok, a week left until Christmas - a week !  The last threads have been stitched (almost) and there's j...

"Where society is rightly ordered children are regarded, not as an encumbrance,  but as an inheritance; and they are recieved...

It's that time of year. Once the first dusting of snow hits the ground.. my brain turns into Santa's workshop , just busting...

Finally .. an actual D o. I t. Y ourself crafty project from this blog... I bet you just choked on your egg nog to see this miracle !...

How do four years hold so much... heavy with rich memories, laughter, lessons (and lunacy ). Yet they disappear so quickly li...