This weekend we celebrated Father’s Day with sunshine, a slip’n slide, pizza and pie! It was a really nice and sweet day. There have been some stressful days lately, and it felt nice to just hang out together, cook, and play. Sometimes that is just what your soul needs. It also felt really great to […]
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Fresh Pasta Family Night
Fresh pasta, the thing of gods… or people with the luxury of extra time. Which today in an odd turn of events we had. An entire day at home together. Jamie decided to make fresh pasta.
Spanakopita
Today I attempted to make the traditional and fussy Spanakopita with my children. And it was a disaster. A complete disaster. I wanted to make them because I know my husband loves them and we had a stupid fight this morning and I wanted to do something nice for him. So we hit up Walmart […]
A Sea of Support
This past week has had me thinking about human nature more than I care to admit. If you have been following along with Thor’s story you can see that we have had an emotional week. Emotional to say the least. But the emotions have also been surrounded by an amazing support. Not just from family […]
Bible Basics Book Review
Little Chef loves to read, most days he asks me to read him a story about 35 times between waking and finally going to sleep at the end of the night. I try to keep a full library of books available to him, but he always seems to gravitate to a few select favourites. Last […]
I Love You to the Ocean
Lately Little Chef has started saying “I love you to the ocean” and we are not sure where he picked it up. Maybe he created it from his book about the little nutbrown hare who says he loves his mommy to the moon, or from the skinnamarinky song. Who knows. Either way its so dang cute we melt to puddles every time he says it. We decided he needed to actually see the ocean to understand what he was saying.
Moments.
Raising little people is one of the most difficult jobs out there. I read endless mommy blogs about mothers struggling to handle it, and cheering each other on in the struggle. And I am glad that there is this community that shows the sides of motherhood that most people hide. But some days no matter […]
