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This morning I received this email from one of my students...thank you, my friend...this is what it is really all about: I wanted to tell you that ...

Happy Monday from home. Just a fun little photo of me and Carrie while visiting her Aunt Chris (aka: Sugar Aunt Chris) in Dallas. Seeing friends is...

I had an amazing experience these last few days at CKU-A in Dallas. It was the best. Currently I am sitting in Salt Lake City waiting for my flight...

Just getting the last minute things ready to go around here. Burning my class presentation to disk - I love Keynote (which is basically Powerpoint ...

[ CAPTIVATE: v : attract; cause to be enamored ] This morning I thought I would share a few things that have been captivating me lately. • the daff...

Chris found a nice little article online today about Raising Onlies - as in "only child." We talk on and off about having only one child. For us, r...

Simon has a good-sized collection of stuffed animals. Last week we gathered them all up and lined them against the wall in his room. It was so cool...

Hello yellow. Hard to be grumpy with beauty like this staring me in the face. And yet, I have had a grumpy day. Simon had a grumpy day too. A chall...

Hungry? Check out: 101 Cookbooks. I bought Heidi's vegetarian cookbook Cook 1.0 recently to try something new and different. The photos in this boo...

Things come to me at strange times. I write notes to myself regularly in order not to forget. A lot of times this happens when I lay down to take a...

One of the things I love most about this house is the backyard. Big. On a sunny day I could stay out there for hours. Digging in the dirt. Planting...

I had a comment posted from Gina yesterday asking about my camera. I am using a Canon Digital Rebel - lately with a fixed 50mm lens. The lens came ...

Saturday's have become grocery day around here. We have been working on a cash grocery budget - sometimes we can make it on one trip a week and oth...

Chris and I have a saying around here when we come across a sign of Simon's existence: Simon was here. He is really very talented at leaving traces...

as seen in the March 2005 issue of Creating Keepsakes magazine See that cool "A" up there? My sweet friend Gillian is starting her own little busin...

we were eating RED popsicles on a WHITE couch. Who in their right mind owns a white couch with a toddler? Once again, proof that I am not "right in...