I made another crochet top dress for Kate, using the yarn left over from my sweater .  I wanted the bodice to be shorter than the pink on...

Andy started preschool!  He's going two mornings a week for two-and-a-half hours, and he gets to ride the school bus, which he thinks is...

Doug and I have been married for sixteen years. (Yes, our marriage is old enough to drive!) Lisa Benedict came over and took some pict...

Our little girl is a great big second grader!  Here she is, all excited and ready to go on her first day. She's been wearing thi...

I finished another sweater! I first saw this one on Catheryn's crochet blog (which doesn't seem to be there anymore, alas!). That...

I've been helping Anne Marie Corey paint the octopus over at Chambers Bay Playground. The octopus was installed a year ago with th...

Kate had a couple of swim sessions at the YMCA a couple of years ago, which I didn't feel were particularly productive.  This summer w...

Behold the lowly slug, who spreads a shiny trail of happiness behind him wherever he goes! We like to poke slugs (gently) in the eye...

We went down to Lakewood to get some Korean lunch for my coming-home-from-mission anniversary day. And since we were out of kim (seaweed...

We use this plastic basket when we go to the pool or the beach.  Andy found another use for it. 

The Beechers invited us over to see their ducklings and rabbits.  They have their own little backyard menagerie. Kate gets to ho...