Beautiful Calling

  Cleaning out the basement, Chloe and John discovered these “cowboy” hats. They were so excited because there was a girl one and a boy one. blue ribbon = boy hat These guys make me laugh. Forget toys, they love mud, dress-up clothing, kitchen utensils, boxes, blankets… What is your children’s favorite “odd” toy?

This little man is sporting some serious style! Hat, white dress shirt and black cords {BabyGAP},  suspenders and bow tie {eBay}, beautiful wool coat {garage sale find!} and those handsome eyes? {Daddy!} This post links up with Small Style

(Sept 2005, Our New House #1) Today we got the keys to our new house. This weekend we say goodbye to our old house. The house that we chose as a newly engaged couple. The house I walked into as a newly wed and am leaving as a married woman and mother of three. Oh, [...]

Spring. Mud. Children. FUN! I loved mud as a child. We lived in the country so no paved driveway for us. A nightmare for my parents perhaps but a delight for us as children! While mud doesn’t give me quite the same thrill as it used to, watching my children enjoy it definitely does make [...]

This time last year I was enjoying the last trimester of my pregnancy, fully expecting to have another perfectly healthy little baby by summer. What I didn’t expect? To spend over a month living at McMaster Children’s Hospital with my sweet baby in the NICU! Isaac was my third home birthed baby. His birth was [...]

Source I began preparing for March break in February. Alas, March break crept up fast and life being as it is, I was not as prepared as I had planned to be for our March Break trip. I forgot a few important things – like my beloved pillow and the new library books. What is [...]

The other day as I was helping my tots get into their snow clothes to go outside to play {for all too short a time before coming in to get undressed because it’s cold}, Chloe looked at me and said, Mommy, my favorite thing about you is your face. It’s beautiful because it always has [...]

Ready to go? John is!

Chloe and John love their Sarah’s Silks dress up clothing. We had the perfect opportunity this week to wear these lovely creations out of the house legitimately. Saturday was the annual Storybook Breakfast fundraiser and the tots had a wonderful time. This year the books we received at the breakfast were Olivia Saves the Circus, [...]

“I think I got the heck of it!” ~ John, on buttoning his pants. “Because all those people are bad and going to Helloween.” ~ John, on trick-or-treating. {we had a little discussion about this one! LOL} “My little Coochie” ~ Chloe, who always says this to Isaac. “Oma doesn’t need the outside of her [...]