After six years of blogging, I am writing my final post here on ArtsyMama. It is with deep gratefulness in my heart I am finishing this chapter. I have written 1096 posts and taken thousands of photo...
The kids woke up to an extra special treat this morning. Last night I told them the legend of St. Nicholas celebrated on the eve of Dec. 5th in some European countries. They left their boots on ...
Today the kids opened up their books before school. They got two Berenstain Bears books: Meet Santa Bear and Trim the Tree and Fancy Nancy Splendiferous Christmas by Jane OConnor.There wasnt an...
We woke up to a few inches of snow this morning. A nice little winter wonderland!Our books for today were Christmas in the Big Woods and A Little House Christmas by Laura Ingles Wilder.We...
Along with our book advent each day, the kids also look forward to the chocolate advent that I got from Trader Joes (below) and our traditional felt advent calendar that we had growing up. Each day b...
The kids have really been enjoying the book advent idea. Last night after dinner we did winter wreaths since the theme of yesterdays books were snow and winter.Chloe made this wreath using some of th...
I started a new tradition today. The kids will get a new book or two each day starting today until December 25th. I was inspired by a few of these projects I have seen online over the years and on pi...
Joe and I had a fun night out celebrating our 13 year wedding anniversary. We headed to downtown Minneapolis to check out a Japanese Pub called Izakaya. Having never tried authentic Japanese food in ...
My mom and I visited the Bachmans idea house today for some holiday inspiration. With its gorgeous use of natural materials and soft tones, it certainly was the dose of holiday spirit that I needed.&...
seeing: the cutest little banana split eversmelling: the crisp fall air with a bit of dew in the morningtasting: pumpkin cookies, pumpkin bread, pumpkin cake...yum!hearing: the kids reading together ...
Our summer always wraps up with our annual trek over to St. Paul for the "great Minnesota get-together"....the state fair! Its a fun filled day with lots of food and festivities.
Just like last year, our final trip of the summer was up to the sailboat on Lake Superior. The kids are always in awe of the "big lake" and all of the adventures that were in store.Our first ...
Labor Day is the last day of summer around here. The kids start school tomorrow and Ive been refecting on what an amazing summer this has been!Seemed like a slow start planting the garden in hand num...
Today was delivery day for our scarecrow that we created for Scarecrows on Parade at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. We created this guy (below) called "Picturing Fall". It depicts mother ...
Did you know that today is Worldwide Day of Play? I was not aware of this until my kids tried to turn on Nickelodeon and they have no programming today to encourage people to get outside and play. Wh...
This is the third year that Hope has come to stay with my family for a week in September and we always have the best time. The first few years it was fun to have Junk Bonanza going on during her visi...
Hope was here for a week and then my sister, Laura, was here the week after. Their trips overlapped by a couple of days, which was a lot of fun. We went to Scrapfest at the Mall of America together a...
Its been kind of a funky fall here this year. It has been sunny, bright and warm (very warm) for the last week or so. I love the crystal blue sky and the beautiful leaves, but the warmth hinders my n...
Even thought this fall has certainly been unusual with the number of very warm days that weve had, the colors have peaked and the warmth makes for wonderful outdoor walks through the woods and patche...
Theres just something about playing in a pile of leaves. Its fun at any age! The kids have had a few chances in the last week to play in the leaves and boy was it fun.
One of my favorite traditions, carving pumpkins! Nothing beats a crisp, sunny fall day with pumpkin ooze and seeds, drawing out and carving the face...and that amazing aroma. Hello fall!
Chloe and I hosted a Halloween mad hatter tea party today. She dressed up as Alice in her little blue vintage dress. I was inspired by the article styled by Debbie Dusenberry in the Halloween issue o...
Here we all thought the colors were "peaking" a few weeks ago and according to the official map of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (the DNR) it looks as if we would be leafless ...
We started the weekend with a wonderful Halloween event at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum. So cool to have it on such a big area and the weather and colors couldnt have been more perfect. What a f...
Let the Halloween in youcome out and PLAY!!!
Hope yours was full of spooky fun!
This time of year, I love to take a bog walk and see the gorgeous orange glow of the tamarak trees. It has become an annual tradition of mine to do this right around the first of November. The bog ha...
I cant believe its already that time of year to talk about apple picking. We really are on our last few weeks of summer, arent we!? Today was just too perfect not to get out and enjoy it at our favor...
I found this sweet little autograph book at an estate sale last week. It says it was Marys from when she was 15 years old received in 1925. I enjoyed paging through the quirky little words of advice ...
We enjoyed a wonderful day at the Minnesota Zoo last weekend. We hadnt been there in a few years. The weather was perfect! I forgot to put my memory card in my camera, so luckily Chloe was on the bal...
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