Nobody more surprised than us.  Or more happy.    *Baby due Christmas 2013*

Tradition. I love the sound of that word and all the possibility of pleasant times and warm memories it holds.  But when it comes to starti...

I pretty much finished addressing our Christmas cards this afternoon - there are always seems to be one or two addresses left to track do...

Been absent such a while now.  After such a while it's little daunting to come back.  But I think I'm ready...at least for the pur...

Going to Target has always felt like something of a treat to me, even when it was just a five minute drive from my house.  Now the closest ...

We'd waited all spring and even all this long summer.  We meant to save it until we were desperate for some cheering up in the middle ...

I've been living with this old, harvest gold, Frigidaire Deluxe double oven and electric range for about three months now.  I can't...

We subscribed to our local CSA.  It was our first time to do anything of the kind, so I did not know what do expect and was certainly not p...

The email came just a month or so ago. Nothing could have been more unexpected I sat in the middle of the dust and debris of our new home th...

    As I mentioned, finding homes for all the odds in ends that managed to make it from Colorado to Iowa was quite the job.  Somethin...

So that little two-week vacation from blogging wasn't quite planned.  But perhaps it was inevitable.  My dear mother just left ...

So blessed by your kind, encouraging comments.   I am sorry the posting has been so thin and far between, but it means so much knowing that ...

 {via} It's been pretty quiet here of late.   On the home front the work is slow, and I admit it's been challenge to maintai...

Revisiting the end of June today and a little party we managed to squeeze in just before we drove away to Iowa.  You see, we have this funn...