Minding My Peas

Klaus turned six yesterday. I don’t know how that happened. It seems like just yesterday he was a curly-hair toddler, or a chunky baby winning all of our hearts. Somehow now, he’s a tall, skinny child that talks a lot about transformers, builds a lot with Legos, wants to eat…

I read a lot. You might have learned that about me by now 😉 As a home-educating mother, I take my own continuing education seriously. I think it’s important to pursue a variety of subjects that will be mentally stimulating to me personally and help me to be a better…

We’re entering birthday season again! Eva kicks off the birthday’s for the year in our family. She turned 4 yesterday, and I didn’t get a chance to get her birthday interview up then but I’m doing it now. Her third year was one with so much growth–the sweet, can’t-believe-it-goes-so-fast kind,…

Every so often I like to do written snapshots of life, just to capture a breath of our life in the spaces between these tiny black lines. There are so many little things in life with children that fade in and out of focus. Little quirks, lisps, interests, favorite games–the…

I have a tendency to tell myself I like all seasons of the year equally, but every year when we come around to February I astound myself. The depth and breadth of that lie! I do not like February. It is a month best contemplated from a broiling day in…