for reals.
I know that most of the world sees laundry as a chore and that many a mom has complained about the piles and piles that never seem to end. I am not one of these moms. I LOVE doing the laundry. Our laundry basket hardly gets full before I’m putting it [...]

I took some time out the other night to sit on my fanny and draw some cameras for the spoonflower contest outdated technology. I drew them on tracing paper, using photogrpahs as guides, and then scanned them in and tweaked them a little. The left is the original file- the right is the [...]

hello friends. I hope your 2012 has been lovely so far. As much as I love the holidays I also love this time of year. This buckle-down-and-get-it-done & clean-it-out-and-oganize-it time of year is invigorating. We’ve been doing a little of all of that. The kiddos are back at daycare and [...]

The kiddos are in bed after a long day of movie watching, ornament & cookie making, trampoline jumping, and late night light tour bike riding. The Mr. and I are soaking in the Christmas eve magic in the living room, waiting for Santa. Christmas Eve is the best. From our rainy little [...]

…a little bit like Christmas. Although it’s warm/rainy/sunny here everyday and we never close our windows and it’s just about always too warm for hot chocolate. We picked out a tree the other day at Helemano farms, just down the road from our house and brought it home with the top down. [...]

I know, I know. This is ridiculous and it’s a good thing that I don’t have sponsors on this blog, they’d be furious. I have been so busy in the thick of living and trying to keep my head above water that the little things like blogging and painting my toenails have completely [...]

We are waiting. Hanging out in this house in this one room with one laundry basket, three air mattresses, and a half drawer full of socks that we never wear (except for Garth, he wears his all the time).
We made an offer on a house in February. It was a short sale and [...]

ginger, meet ice cream.

and it was gooood ice cream.

Garth started his real job yesterday. He’s been “checking in” for the last 2 months but now he’ll be working 12 hour days. The days are long for him and they are long for me, so I have been trying to get out of the house with the kids early in the day [...]

On black friday I purchased something big. And expensive. I am the let’s-see-how-little-I-can-spend variety so this was a big deal for me. It was shipping to me from Utah so I waited patiently the week or so for it to arrive and was so excited about it that I made sure that [...]