Registration for Holidays in Hand is Open!
You’re invited to our FINAL class of 2009, and best of all, it’s FREE! Take advantage of this special opportunity to refocus on what matters most to YOU during the holiday season, no matter how you celebrate. We’ll be making a great project to help you tell your holiday stories both past and present, and I’d like to extend a personal invitation to EVERYONE. You don’t have to be a digital scrapbooker, you don’

NoVeMbEr!
Can you believe it? Halloween is over, October is over, and we’re heading in to the holiday season that ends 2009. I can’t BELIEVE it! I finally got a picture of Rowen’s “tooth holes” - which are kind of cheats, since her two bottom teeth started coming in about 6 weeks ago: So she wrote a letter to the Tooth fairy, and even decorated the envelope:

Quick Recap, more to come!
Wow. So much has happened in the past several days. Gotta get it down, then expand on it as I get time Rowen lost her first tooth! Yeah! Her permanent teeth on the bottom had been growing in already, and she wrote the SWEETEST  note to the Tooth Fairy. Scan to come. We visited a pumpkin farm and did the corn maze. It took us about an hour, and was awesome for almost all of it (less awesome when the kids got tired and Jared and I ended up hauling them on our backs through the end of it), we pretended that we were in a dungeon searching for the mini-bosses at the dead ends (they are the ones with the chests full of loot, of course). We had our first ann

Chicken soup.
I was awake last night. Most of the night. And I got to thinking, as I often do when I can’t sleep - of course ALL my best ideas (at leat they seem like really good ideas… hmm..) come in the middle of the night. But this one wasn’t so much a bright new idea as a little bit of a revelation. I feel like I’ve been sort of in survival mode, waiting for what I don’t know, but there it is. I’ve been out of habits, out of sorts, in high-alert mode for weeks, and I feel stretched pretty thin for it. So today I read planet books with Ele after preschool. And I made chicken noodle soup, following this Paula Deen recipe called “

September Extended, Halloween, Digi, Sleepless
So, apparently September decided to extend itself several more days. It’s threatening to take over Halloween, which we really can’t let happen, because Rowen decided to be something EASY this year (Tinker Bell) and we already have her costume. However, if it wants to delay Halloween just a bit, until I can figure out how to accomplish Ele’s request (that’d be, you guessed it, the planet Saturn), that would be fine. How does a kid who is four want to be A PLANET for Halloween? Not an astronaut, (he didn’t want to be an astronaut last year, but we convinced him), he wants to be the planet. And of course he wants to be the ringed