As I write this I am enjoying a quiet house (Loren put himself to bed with the kids) and a cup of herbal tea.  There have been very few mom...

Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. ...

 Woke up to snowflakes falling this morning... a perfect opportunity for Sadie to try out the crocheted qiviut hat-hoodie I made for her ...

 We awoke this morning to a magical, sugar-dusted world. In the quiet you could hear the tinkling of frozen leaves falling in the woods. ...

On Life's Mysteries: "Mom...nobody knows when or when not they are going to die...it's a mystery .  And not even Huckle {c...

There are a lot of things I could say right now--about how exhausted, and braindead I am from the kids crazy sleeping (or lack there-of) th...

I finally got my sewing machine out...since moving from Nome- -hello old friend!  The first thing I did was to figure out how to sew a rol...

When we decided to get chickens Sadie was excited for weeks in advance.  I kind of wondered if this would be the kind of thing where t...

Happy St. Patrick's Day!  It was a green day for us which started out with a delicious Paleo Eggs Florentine, and commenced with many ...

I think kids have comparable growing habits to plants, and no one will ever convince me otherwise.  The more sunshine, fresh produce and ex...

I didn't take a ton of pictures over the holidays, mainly because I didn't want a camera stuck to my face the whole time. Sometime...

After a very dry and windy early winter here in Palmer we finally got our wish for a white Christmas.  A really white one if all this snow ...

Things are a little hectic around here lately, and that might just be the understatement of the year.  Packing with a toddler and a newbor...