With the weird Winter weather so far, we haven’t had much snow accumulation until early January. Alex had fun shoveling and going just plain crazy in the snow. 😀

I know Summer is officially over but our tomato plants are still lingering – so many tiny tomatoes on them yet. I’m surprised we haven’t gotten any frost overnight so far but the temperature has gone down low enough that I don’t think the tomatoes […]

Most years, we’ll try to plant some spring vegetables such as lettuce, radish, and peas to enjoy. None of the vegetables I started out this year however, have survived so far due to various weather-related reasons. The worst was the flash flood we had on […]

I love the Time For Kids website and use it often as one of my homeschooling resources. This worksheet – For the Birds, from which we obtained the steps to make the pinecone bird feeder comes from there. Alex enjoyed this activity tremendously last Spring, […]

Sometime late Spring 2009 (I’m trying to catch up with my old unpublished posts) :), we signed Alex up for a kids’ cooking class at a culinary school nearby. He didn’t enjoy the class as much as we had hoped because there wasn’t too much […]

These past four months have been quite a challenge for me, eating-wise. After a couple of months of stomach discomfort, paired with bouts of diarrhea every two or three days, my doctor is finally convinced that I’m lactose intolerant. I’m still not entirely convinced myself […]

I took these pictures in spring from inside the house (through the front window), which is why they are not very clear – I didn’t want to scare off the chipmunk by going outside. 🙂 Actually, I didn’t have any intention of taking pictures of […]

Below are a few pictures of one of my favorite trees – the Eastern Redbud in our front yard. I saw the Redbud tree for the very first time years ago in a local park. It was spring and the flowering Redbud, with its clusters […]

Precious moments…

I love tulips. They are my favorite spring flowers – simple in form yet elegant. I eagerly look forward to them in our own garden every year. Unfortunately, they are also a favorite among the deer. We got away with it for the past two […]