As if the last post didn’t have enough pictures!  But, I particularly like this one.  Killy’s so wild and crazy in the foreground, and Ellie has such a cute expression on her face.

We’ve got several inches of snow on the ground already, and they’re calling for it continue snowing for awhile yet, I think.  Killian enjoyed the snow a whole lot, he and David played outside for about 40 minutes.  He’s such a tough kid!  It was 16 degrees outside with a windchill of zero!  David finally [...]

Yesterday it was beautiful: 70s, sunny, slight breeze… I took the kids for a nice long walk to the park where we played on the swings and playground.
Today:

(Yes, I know his neck looks cold – I decided I’m going to crochet him a scarf for Christmas.) It was mostly ice outside when we played this [...]

Well, I went on and embroidered the faces, and they turned out great!  (Not perfect, but still great.)  Here they are!  Now I just have to wait almost a month to give them to the kids…

Several of the community centers around here do free play gymtime for toddlers.  Basically, they fill their gym with toddler [...]

Well, I’ve finished the dolls except for embroidering the faces. I’m totally dreading that. But, the dolls look adorable already!

In other news, it was a really tough day. One of my dear friends at church passed away last week after battling colon-rectal cancer for a little over a year and her memorial [...]

A few little things that I want to mention:
-the BEST thing ever to do with all the dark turkey meat left after Thanksgiving: shred it, put it in the crockpot with a bottle of your favorite bbq sauce, and let it heat through.  Serve on buns with coleslaw.  This was amazing last night!  No one [...]

Well, I’m making the kids’ dolls, and so far they’re turning out really well!  I’m a total moron when it comes to cutting out fabric, so I’ve had to re-cut a couple things and modify the pattern a bit to account for my stupidity, but the end result looks the same so I can’t beat [...]