she has the smallest face, the littlest curve in her nose. in the sun her hair glows golden and messy. she likes to run, run fast and free and long. she is too smart and too spunky. she puts her arms...
this weekend we met the neighbors (who are great and have dogs and swear they dont think were too loud), ernie mowed the grass, the kids and i put some plants into boxes and felt a great sense of hop...
strawberry limeade cold by night boys digging old asphalt from the future former driveway mushrooms at the park empty parks new bird feeder from grammy waiting for good mail finding something on my &...
the house feels settled. we invite people for dinner. thanks to my generous husband and some familial donors we have a new rocking chair to rock the baby. its arrival was my primary motivation for cl...
this weekend i caught up on work (all caught up, yay!), ate tacos at el molcajete after church, took a short and frequently interrupted nap in a hot, fanless room, drank at least a dozen iced coffees...
this week: the graduation of ernies brother, family all about, celebration indian dinner, hours cleaning the house for a short time of company. it was good, fast. there were eight kids spinning aroun...
hot now, almost summer, already summer if it werent for the still cool air breezing through by night, the trees still a little small of leaf, bright of green. time for summer drinks, fans, grilling t...
likeable late after noon with the little french press new shelves in the dining room strawberries all day most of the boxes unpacked or squirreled away hard work ultrasound with wiggling wee babe col...
warm for days, sunny, hot in the window places. cold coming in by night, curtains a slow billowing in curtain orbs, sinking back in close to the screen, out again, in. nighttime coughing, daytime wor...
in love with muddy kids taking baths each night. or afternoon. judes teepee unpacking things i forgot we had dishwasher of dreams central vac clean sheets pulled tight stirrings of the baby morning s...
spring break, were not taking it. enough with the breaks, we need to get the schoolwork done. i see in our future a long summer of math books and spelling tests and an endless stack of handwriting pa...
poison ivy on jude, pollen sneezing for half of us, long mornings outside for the worst of it. making headway with boxes, dishes galore, school here and there, creative work there and here, falling a...
january, february, all but a few days of march lost in this space. so many things have happened since i blogged last and i really dont want to go into all of them. the first short story is: big dadd...
fifties, almost sixties, the january of dreams, green grass peeking out, daffodils confused, early. these are pics from the coldest day ive felt in a long time, a model rocket day in illinois with gr...
i had a commission last fall for a set of five alice in wonderland themed mobiles for a little girl named rosy. they were super fun to think about and sketch out and cut and string up on wire. ive li...
to illinois and back again, cousins and uncles and grandmas galore, cold winter winds blowing us into this new year, blowing all around us before we close ourselves in our rocket and launch ourselves...
a few resolutions for a new year read 52 books become very skinny spend less money mop more often learn to linocut memorize a little erik satie minimalize the stuff in my life plant trees
january february march april may june july august september october november december so long, 2011. you were verily a good year. and, apparently, you were a year of instagrams.
mild he lays his glory byborn that man no more may dieborn to raise the sons of earthborn to give them second birth
im not sure where the last week has gone! ive been trying to clean the house from top to bottom because i really hate a messy house surrounding me at christmas. i have a no-stress policy once the las...
all royal buffet christmas packages to ship are wrapped and waiting for the dark cloud of grumpy customers in line at the post. i can barely make myself take them out the door and into that mess, thr...
the weekend, at last! ernie at home, no schoolwork of which to speak, the tedious cleaning of bathrooms and wading through mess behind me for a moment, advent things, basketball games, coffee flowing...
emily jeffords, comment number 13! thanks to everyone who entered and spread the word! you all are the best! you can try your luck in the next giveaway which comes in late january on the 4th annivers...
rain, open windows for the day, the night. december, are you for real? it doesnt feel like the brink of christmas, it feels like a leafless september, a crocusless march. the tree, leaning slightly t...
christmas tree tinsel everywhere piano practice post office homework little string player christmas concert mobiles cutting out many dogs vacuuming the kitchen floor at last amazing chicken tikka mas...
december, from whence have you come!? to celebrate decembers arrival and to get into the christmas spirit, im giving away a copy of my pretty book! yes, i know. exciting! to enter the giveaway, simpl...
the farm, a peaceful and wonderful place. grandpa is 92, so this kind of weekend wont happen too many more times. weve got a beautiful, mortal life, do you know it? our little family felt the pangs o...
the husband, kind and strong. the children, full of life and breath. the pup, asleep in a circle of himself. the sky, blue as ocean reflection, black and star specked, the great dome of stories overh...
two carolina wrens outside my window, one thin, one fat, going from fence to feeder and back to the fence again. birds and bird seed, some days, the most redeeming thing about winter. coffee, lots of...
field trip to carl sandburgs home, pizza at a nearby bakery, abandoned orchard for a lone bag of apples, drive up the mountain to hendersonville, drive back down the mountain home, windy and cold, a ...
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