About a year ago my stunningly amazing husband Joshie left town for the never-ending-business-trip (he was gone off and on for more than four months) and I sat down with my laptop and started up my little blog.  It was just what I needed and the connections I made with my readers (as though anyone [...]

I’ve felt a bit like I lost my crafting mojo lately among all the dishes and laundry, and I was inspired by Jean over at the Artful Parent to plan an activity a day for the month of April*.  Jean’s ideas all sounded like such fun and just what I needed great way to really [...]

I love reading about all of the creative projects we parents in the blog world share with their kids. It never fails to inspire me when I’m not really feeling up to the challenge of motherhood and so enriches the time that I have with my little ones. I am so grateful to [...]

Some unpleasant strain of influenza is slowly making its way through each one of us and I’m wiped out from trying to take care of everyone (thankfully I got it at the beginning, but it was a nasty bug and I’m still recovering!).  I’ll definitely be back with a post on Friday, but I’m lying [...]

I’ve been working on a little blog renovation and wanted to share a couple of things that you might not notice right away. I moved some of our links up to the top (the ‘about us,’ ’subscribe,’ ‘email,’ etc), have some little links to a few of my favorite posts on the left over [...]

 We are setting out for a month of frugality.  I’ve set aside $300 in cash to cover our family of five’s grocery and fuel needs, and other than that I’m breaking the shopping habit for the month–in hopes of saving a few bucks and, perhaps, changing our family mindset a bit.  (image via flickr)
Whether you’d [...]

Dear readers, who I wonder about, care for, and appreciate deeply:
I love kiddio to bits, in spite of a run of seriously frustrating, melancholy weeks, I’m still here and back to posting (thank you so much for the kind emails, comments, and general nudging :).  I like it tremendously well the way it is and [...]

I’ve been stuck. The holidays were both a nice break and a lot of chaos, and I feel like I’ve been recovering ever since. I haven’t been able to get my creative self moving again and haven’t had much to share, so I’ve been quiet. This week, though, I’m pushing through and [...]

We received a lovely catalog from Heifer International a few days ago, and my almost-six-year-old was quite taken with it. She enjoyed looking at the pictures, talking about what a flock of chicks or a llama are good for, but once she really understood the value of livestock to a child just like her [...]

Dear Readers,
I so appreciate all of you. Your comments keep me going, your devotion and appreciation for posts even I think are pretty lame and uninspired really cheers me when the mommy road gets rough. I want you all to know how much this means to me so I’ve put together a bunch [...]