In between all the making and baking, this holiday, there has been playing and music making. Oh, I love our time together. Hearing the girls performing duets together just makes me hold my breath for a moment. They are growing. As I wander around the house, I hear and see […]
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Happy Winter Solstice
From the advent truck today, emerged the green man bearing gifts from the trees. We brought in the evergreens and thanked the trees, we selected our yule log, we lit our fire to tempt the sun back, and we attached notes to the log. Each note documenting the things we […]
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So I made the polar bear. I made the wolf. With three children, I had to make a third. Options included a tractor, dinosaur or a Totoro. All would have provided a great shape for the millet bag, but due to an (imaginary) Totoro accompanying us on several adventures over […]
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