the candy jar

I had awesome plans while on vacation that included working out at least three times this week.  I even noted the “light activity” days in my mind as my husband and I talked about our schedule.  The problem is that the light activity days were filled with all the uncertainties and unexpected interruptions of any […]

I have to admit that driving through redwoods in the fog-filled mountains at night is no fun.  I told my husband at one point that I hoped we never saw a state park again last night; in our driving conditions, the state park sign was literally translated 'it will be too dark for you to see an […]

For the next week-and-a-half, we are traveling up the California coastline.  Praise God for frequent flyer miles that only allowed us to fly in and out of certain cities!  Our original plan was to fly in and out of San Francisco for a three-day family reunion; boy, am I glad that didn’t work out.  We […]

  I finished teaching a class on last night, and so devoted my day to scrapbooking.  I am compiling a summer album based upon all the “everyday life” pictures I’ve collected of the children over the past few years and never figured out how to incorporate them into a theme.  The one below is a  recent […]

As I drove this morning, I noticed the number of new neighborhoods being built on the same main thoroughfare as our subdivision.   I thought about our neighbor’s comment that the advanced kids at our neighborhood school are now out in a temporary building and having to supply their own bottled water.   Where will the children […]