Kate is 18 months old today! How the time has flown. We went to the park and she had a great time on the slide. She can't quite figure...

Kate has been complaining a lot when I change her diaper. I think it's not so much that she hates getting her diaper changed, but that ...

I love watching Doug and Kate play together. They are just so cute. Doug is a great dad. He reads her stories and makes up funny little s...

I spent a good part of the day yesterday (and part of this morning) making this knot in Photoshop. Isn't it beautiful?

I hate losing stuff. I have a couple of big sketchbooks that used to be under our bed in our old apartment. Since the move I haven't s...

We went to the park yesterday looking for ducklings. The ducks were uncooperative, but we did find these pretty blue flowers. Does anybody...

The Squirrelly Girls have been doing circle journals. I let a few pile up on me (well, there was the move, and then I didn't have my sc...

Kate has been enjoying painting the porch with water. My mom used to have us do this sometimes, when we were looking for something to do on...

In the summer of '96, after Doug and I got engaged and before we got married, I did a three-month internship at a publishing company in...

Mom doesn't need breakfast in bed a new car a diamond tennis bracelet a steak dinner a dozen red roses All Mom wants is a picture. Now h...

This is a picture of my mom with Kate, taken while we were in Ohio last summer. Mom was the one who taught me how to roll a ball of yarn so...

Yesterday I used some big swoopy letters from the font "Aquiline" to put some random lines across the background of a layout I was...

May 5th, 1992, was the day I arrived in Korea for my mission. It was Children's Day, a national holiday, and I saw lots of people out w...

Tomorrow (May 5th) is Children's Day in Korea. Since I just figured out how to type in Korean, I thought I would make some word art for...

I finished up the Cupboard Under the Stairs on April 12th. Doug went out with me and helped me take pictures and get everything packed up. ...

Here's Kate in her pretty dress that her Aunt Barbie made. She liked carrying the basket around, but lost interest in the plastic eggs....

Work on the Cupboard Under the Stairs has been progressing very slowly. I've only been out to Port Orchard to work on it a few times si...