This year I did some research before I put my tomatoes in the ground. The tomatoes that I started indoors completely flopped. They got some kind of blight while they were still in the lau...
Up to the left is the orchard. Alex removed the two bushes that were blocking the orchard from view and put down free chipped wood mulch, so now, in the corner, you can see a tiny little Graven...
In my garden this year have been a number of experiments. The first one being to see how much new food I could get from organic groceries. Potatoes were the first experiment. All wi...
a baby, no more.
I have taken an unintentional blog break. From both blogs. It is for many reasons, one of which being that my baby is now 13 months old and his favorite pastimes include dumping, throwing...
I hope you had a lovely day!
Getting rid of stuff has always been easy for me. I do not packrat stuff away or think I am going to use stuff that has been sitting in a box for years… but what about when you are down to the stuff ...
Spring has come at last. Although there is still very little evidence of it outside. We get rain, sleet, hail, and/or snow every single day (and they say that WA always has the same weath...
St Patrick’s Day was a favorite of my mom’s when I was little. Up until I was 23, March 17th was the ONLY time I ate meat. I looked forward to my mom’s annual corned beef feed and goodnes...
I see: a baby following a large blue ball, a girl in pigtails, a boy in a bicycle shirt, birds out the window at the feeder we just filled, and a man-child getting ready to go get his drivers permit....
My children are 15, 10, 5 and 1. This means that I have spaced out my need for baby things by 4 or 5 years at a time. The breaks in between my need for baby items has made the rise in bab...
This month has been interesting already. That saying ‘in like a lion, out like a lamb’… well it’s been a lion’s month so far! Pouring down rain, wind storms, sunny mornings only to break into a...
{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. {Inspired by Soul...
Haha… You thought I was a good girl? Little did you know… Nah. Just kidding. I didn’t get my medical ganja license or anything… it’s just these: I am pretty much the most impa...
Sh*t Crunchy Mama’s Say from MamaNatural.com has to be one of the funniest things I have seen in a long time! There are so many of the things I do (and funny enough, my mom did too) that ...
It was a wonderful party! Just dinner with a few friends and a few babies. Nothing super planned, because as often happens with babies, plans changed several times. A few pic...
Luke is ONE today!
It is COLD in our house. About 66* on a good day. Every time I pick up my sweet baby his tiny feet are so cold! And he will not keep socks on. So I decided to make him some sl...
My husband’s mom had a stroke this week. We don’t know much, but she has recovered a bit so that is a good sign that slowly she will recover some of what was lost. We really know nothing ...
I know that it’s too late for this to be inspiration for anyone for this year, but I am really enjoying pinning ideas for NEXT year on my boards on Pinterest. So just in case you are a P...
We have all been sick this week. Don got a nasty cold last week and then we picked it up. The baby, Cyan, and I have it the worst. Sinus headaches, body aches, ear aches, nose plugg...
These are yoda finger puppets which we folded from this tutorial. So cute!!
Quite simply I added a ring of cardstock, hot glued around the edge of the candy box so I could add a second layer of cardboard wrapped with pink cling wrap to put a sandwich on a top layer. The lid ...
Almost a year ago my husband and I decided to go without credit. It was a horrible time for it. We were just about to have our 4th baby, we had spent all our savings that winter on a new ...
Most of the snow and ice are gone now. Now is just the destruction. And the clean up…. People call these branches “widow makers”. I am not a fan of that term. The sounds of trees br...
Freezing rain comes to the Pacific Northwest: There is more than a half inch of ice on my entire world. This is my backyard this morning: This cherry tree exploded while I was taking these pictures.&...
It is my year for birthday parties in horrible weather I guess. Yesterday started out with DUMPING snow and stories of doom. I had, of course, spent days on this party and had everything ...
Taking down the Christmas décor with my boys… I had the cutest help ever. I went through the whole house and got rid of a ton of stuff I was holding on to for… well… no reason. And the wh...
May 2012 be amazing and bright for you all! Blessings and love from all of us here at the Rose Garden!!
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