This is his mom-promised-me-ice-cream-and-the-ice-cream-employee-is-15-minutes-late-to-work face.  The other one was sleeping.  They look no...

I don't like eggs, but my boys do. Martin loves to help stir eggs. He has gotten so good at scrambling them that I don't even have t...

We had a great weekend helping with and attending a wedding of a dear childhood friend!! It was gorgeous. She was lovely.  The weather was a...

I just finished making 200 cookies for a sweet friend's wedding this weekend. That would have been super quick, but they each required 5...

My umbrella stroller ripped all the way down one side seam. Warren almost fell out.  There were 6 screws on the back and 4 on the bottom tha...

I am a list person.  These are two of my four sheets that I have going for ESL.  And I just realized something I thought was being done isn...

Risotto is my new favorite food. I have been on a risotto kick for a few weeks now. I really like brown rice risotto, but today I used arbor...

I had a flat on the way back from trying to return my peaches. Thankfully, my parents were on the way to the gym (near my house) and stopped...

Monday afternoon, after the gym and the grocery store and the construction, Warren started a fever (of a scary 103 degrees). Thankfully, he ...

We ate pretzels and watched them tear a building down (after we went grocery shopping, as seen by all the bags next to Martin). 

We are glad no student are at college during the summer! The campus is such a nice place to explore. 

Evening from Charles Spurgeon on August 5th.  "Shall your brethren go to war, and shall ye sit here?" Numbers 32:6 Kindred has its...

I tried two new recipes last night from my new cookbook, chicken molè and chocolate cookies. They were both delicious and quick! The chocola...

One I don't like and one I LOVE!!  Ugh. Everytime I find a Martha Stewart living in my mailbox I have a sense of hope that there might p...

When the weather is hot and muggy around here, I dream of Camden or the mountains somewhere. It has been in the 90s for the last two weeks. ...

Guess where I was at 6am on a Saturday? We were going to wake up at 4:30am to leave by 5, but Warren had other plans and woke up at 3:51am. ...

It was delicious! 

I have had mine for six years now. I don't think about them much. But as I was folding the laundry this week it hit me, these are gross ...

I received three very sweet thank you notes last week. They were the kind that covered the notecard with writing, both top and bottom. I app...

Sometimes It is just such a beautiful morning that you pack up the kids and walk (and run) around the local college campus for two hours. It...