My little gnome's birthday eve.

Dear Oliver,

You will always be my baby Ollie.  You love to dance by shaking your little behind from side to side as far and as fast as your hips will take you.  Your smile is ever present and contagious.  You have your daddy wrapped around your little finger.  The sound of your laughter brightens everyone [...]

Crunch Time!

It’s crunch time, isn’t it?  The time of year that all the crafters I know are staying up late working on top secret projects.  I have been quite busy since I haven’t been in this space much.

I didn’t get around to making any handmade gifts for the boys to find under the tree this year.  [...]

St. Nicholas Day!

Happy St. Nicholas Day!

We took the boys out to meet St. Nicholas today.  Aidan’s first words to him were yelled across a bit of a distance, “I’m feeling a little shy!”  Ha!  Once he was feeling a little braver, he yelled out that he was a firefighter like his dad.  Crazy [...]

SF Itinerary

A friend of mine is heading to San Francisco and asked about what we did there.  I realized that I had never really documented it, so I looked back on my notes and decided to post them here.  Excuse the randomness.    (One day I may come back and add in links, but not [...]