Tutorial for creating time
February 6, 2010 - Posted in Vintage Things, creative play
Items needed:
- One blanket
- Two chairs
- One menagerie of stuffed animals
Assemble as shown below. Guaranteed to create at least several hours of time.
Dear winter, Thank you. Goodbye.
February 5, 2010 - Posted in Nature
Dear Winter,
I realize that your visits are necessary and inevitable. However, there comes a time when enough is enough. You’ve outlived your welcome. Goodbye.
Yours,
Candace
Sophie’s Shrek Analyses
February 5, 2010 - Posted in Sophieisms
This morning, the girls were telling me their “to do”lists (another post to come), and one thing led to another and the ended up debating the merits of Shrek, which neither of them have seen.
Sophie apparently feels very strongly about this topic, and with great emotion had this to say:
“Shrek has silly ears and a bad face that I do not like! I wish that he’d cover his ugly head! I don’t even like hearing his voice… it makes my ears hurt!
He just looks like a bad woman with candles for ears, and every part of his face is not the way I like mans faces.
No part of him is good. Not one!
I will never say ‘I want to watch Shrek!’ That’s just not the way I talk.”
A Vey Silly Tea
February 4, 2010 - Posted in The Girls, creative play
My sister and her family were able to visit us last Sunday, to celebrate the Winter birthdays, now that we have acquired several wintry babies.
The younger girls had a crash bang tea party, with much finery, giggling, and consumption of sweets.
And Ring Around The Rosies.
The Roller Heads
February 3, 2010 - Posted in Beauty, The Girls, creative play
Preparations for a very girly, very silly, very loud, tea party with their cousins. Pictures of that tomorrow!
Oh, the help around here.
February 3, 2010 - Posted in Education, Homemaking, The Boy, The Girls
“…If the parents and children were united in the daily labors of the house, garden… such thrift, health, and happiness would be secured as is but rarely found among the rich.”
~The American Woman’s Home by Catherine E. Beecher Stowe(Which, by the way, is a very fascinating read, and can be found online, through Project Gutenberg)
What happens in winter…
February 2, 2010 - Posted in Beauty, Family, Nature, The Girls, creative play
Last week it snowed here, much to the girls’ delight. As much as I hate winter, cold, and cold-wintry-precipitation – I have to admit that it was very pretty. The sunsets were gorgeous, the moon was nearly full, and everything contrasted stunningly against the clean white canvas.
Dan kept suggesting that we take a walk, and I kept agreeing, but somehow that never actually happened. When I started thinking about dressing three babies for a snowy walk, then carrying them when their tootsies all got cold, it seemed like way more trouble than it could possibly be worth.
However, Dan, good papa that he is, did take the girls out to build a snowman. He also took all of these snow pictures, so that I could enjoy the concept of snow, without actually enduring the reality of said snow. I’m such a wimp.
testing… testing…
February 1, 2010 - Posted in Kinsley
Wondering if I still remember how to do this blogging thing. I’m considering picking it back up again, because I miss it!
A glimpse into Kinsley's imagination
Quiet Evenings
October 16, 2009 - Posted in My Home, Nature, photography
Since we’ve moved out here, I’ve really enjoyed the quiet evenings Dan and I have had together. The kids (at least Kinsley and Truxton) seem to be settling in to fairly reasonable bedtime hours, though sometimes Sophie insists on being heavily involved in everything Dan and I are doing.
We’ve enjoyed a few quiet evenings on the porch, sitting on the creaky old swing and sipping wine or coffee. We read together, talk, we’ve worked a bit on a model ship, we even picked Yahtzee back again. I admit it, I love Yahtzee.
A week or so, we were out on the porch enjoying the night air, and I was wishing that just for once I could capture a scene the way I see it at night. So I drug out the camera and tripod, messed with all the settings for a while, and eventually ended up with these shots. I was really happy with what I got. They’re not wonderful photos or anything, they’re just pretty much the way I was seeing them.