early rising
And so Maddie is back to waking up at 5:30 in the morning. Her biological rhythm didn't pick up on the clock change this past weekend. She thinks it's 6:30 when it's 5:30 even though she's still going to bed...

let me share with you these blueberry muffins
I'm certainly not opposed to inhaling a bowl of Rotel/Velveeta dip and corn chips. No siree! But I try not to make it a habit. Instead, I try really really hard to cook and bake with actual food (like vegetables,...

halloween then and now
Before the big snow we went to the pumpkin patch on a day when, unfortunately, Maddie was not really wanting to smile much. It was a sunny day a week or so ago. She was cranky and not up for...

awakening to...
When we woke up yesterday, this is what we saw... and so my husband -- always ready for a good morning work out -- jumped out of bed, put on his coat and boots and headed outside to look for...

fallen leaves
Until we moved to California when I was 11, raking and jumping into enormous piles of leaves that had fallen from the massive maple trees in our front yard in Ohio was just a regular old part of what we...