My graphics tablet has arrived. Now I just have to figure it out.

Kate says, "Hey Mom, what's all that white stuff?" We have snow! We had some light flurries coming down at lunch time yesterd...

Doug and I haven't generally made a big deal of Christmas. Some years we've spent with family, but when we've just been home al...

We got the Schoolhouse Rock DVD! It's so fun. Parts of speech, multiplication tables, history, science, politics, and economics, all se...

After we've been in this apartment for a whole year, we are finally getting Kate's room set up for her. We got her a mattress (at t...

Our car was stolen for a few hours last week. It all turned out okay, but it made for an exciting morning. Thursday morning Doug went out t...

A couple of things that come up every year, that I just wanted to address here to get them out of my system: Snowflakes have six sides. Thos...

Kate has learned to say "Baa Ram Ewe!" That's from the movie Babe . We've been watching it a lot lately. Kate has been ...

(Note:  These are now available here .) I was ambushed by a project! I've been missing for a few weeks. I wasn't really gone, ...

Friday evening we went up to the University of Washington to see Terry Pratchett, one of our favorite authors. He's often referred to ...

I've gotten a bit behind on the blogging thing, since I've been doing a lot of digital design work. I spent a few days making this ...

Doug started classes yesterday. He's teaching four classes this quarter, so he'll be busy. It always takes a while to adjust to th...

We drove down to Klamath Falls, Oregon, to visit Doug's parents. We left the day after our anniversary, a Thursday, and got back the fo...

I did this layout for the ndisb newsletter, originally. It didn't make it into the newsletter, so I'm posting it here. It was fun ...

I've had the Steeleye Span version of "Ten Long Years" going through my head, which is actually about a prison sentence, but h...

Here's what I've been working on lately! We had these super cute pictures of Kate playing with chopsticks at I Love Bento, our loca...

Kate was 20 months old yesterday. Boy, August just zoomed by. Where did it go? Kate has been learning about counting. Sort of. When we...

Amy B. posted this picture of her daughter on her blog (and isn't that layout wonderful?). I'd seen the picture before and express...

Doug and Kate playing with the cittern (it's like a big mandolin with ten strings), in the back yard.