Are We There Yet?

 On a Thursday afternoon 154 years ago, the Blessed Mother appeared to a simple peasant girl in rural France.  Today marks the anniversary...

"And if your mind wanders as you read, do not give up; hurry back and apply your mind to the words once more." ~ St. Romual...

Where Thou art ~ that ~ is home. ~ Emily Dickinson The little boys eating breakfast before school this morning in the dining room.  Al...

We're moving out the contents of all the closets and dressers and the stores in the crawl space today, kids.  But the big Moving Day i...

But almost all the books are packed and moved over. This is a big deal.

Ordinary acts today:  Moving the kitchen, laundry room and the rest of the barn over to the new place; figuring out how to make a walk-in...

....apparently by a rather circuituous route to Afghanistan via Canada. Nobody knows why -- but, unless he's going to defend Canada now...

You know I'll be heading out tomorrow, Gavin, buddy. Some last minute instructions:  The most important -- take good care of Momm...

Thanks to good friend, Brian, who fixed Kevvy's car so that it will now -- work.

Old house.  Not ours. As I mentioned, we painted the girls' room Wednesday.  It looks nice; they love it.  And the little boys...

Busy day ahead.  Dressed in work clothes, but have to be decent enough to drop the little girls off at art class later and do some grocery ...

*  One little girls' bedroom painted blue yesterday at the new house.  Today I stay home and tackle laundry.

* Very, very distracted today...  And likely will be for a bit.  But thought these might be fun to post while we're busy packing and ...

About Love and Chocolate.

Outside my window :  It's cloudy, chilly, and kinda bleh.  There's just enough snow left on the ground to be messy looking, but th...

For the girls' room at the new house. We (the girls and I) love Cicely Mary Barker's Flower Fairies  and were thrilled to find ...

Over the five years I've been blogging, I've enjoyed posting  pictures of family harmony at our house, but I'm afraid that in...