Valentine's Day on a Sunday isn't my favorite. And let's face it, with the kids home from school ALL last week due to snow, I wa...

The idea was this: take a picture of the family every Sunday in the year 2009. The actuality was this: 36 pictures in 52 weeks. Where are t...

On Christmas Eve day Hannah asked me to teach her how to make Ginger Snaps. I feel at peace knowing that some day she'll make them for h...

For the past two years I have blogged about these cookies . This weekend I made thirteen dozen of them. They are now gone. Today I will mak...

Although it is fun to shower others with gifts this time of year, for me it can often become an overwhelming frenzy of buying, wrapping and...

As a young girl growing up in Germany, I looked forward to the tradition of an advent calendar. Ours were not fancy. They were made of cardb...

I've spent the morning doing two things -- sleeping to make up for a night awake with a sick baby and pouting over my serious lack of vi...

See all those flat packages wrapped and ready to go under the kids tree? Bet you think I'm pretty on the ball! You would be wrong. These...

I am a Christmas tree snob. It's true. I like our large {artificial} tree in the family room to look a certain way. And that means its o...

Since it's still November for one more day and I don't have any Christmas decor up yet, I figure I've can still blog about Thank...

I am so grateful for my kids! They make life exciting and joyful. Challenging and hard, but mostly exciting and joyful! In our house on Than...