Month: September 2006

Depending on which calendar I looked at in my home, the first day of Autumn was either Friday or Saturday.  Since my official kitchen calendar said Saturday, that’s the day we went with!!!  Mom’s official kitchen calendar trumps the boys’ calendar any day! In any event, it is now fall!! We’ve decorated our home for […]

Just a quick Works In Progress post today.  The Copper’s Wife and her children are going to spend the day Decking the Halls With Boughs of Fally! I started work on the fourth of eight dishtowels for Corin.  When I stamped this one, I did the design on it twice, along one of the long […]

The north winds are blowing strong, and quite warm, here; but Copper and our boys knew how to take advantage of it.  Flying kites is not something I enjoy doing (I do not care for the wind!), but I absolutely LOVE watching my children flying them! And today, Friday, is another quite blustery day here.  […]

How do you motivate your children to learn?  Now that’s the million dollar question, isn’t it?  When our children our young, they are quite often motivated simply by their own desire to learn.  They are fascinated by the world around them and eagerly enjoy any activity that can tell them why or how something works. […]

…….that mean the most.  Like a working screen door. This house!!  The original owner of this house had the initials P.Q. and we, quite often, will refer to our home’s oddities by calling them P.Q.liar.  Phone jacks, for instance, in every single, solitary room of the house, including all three bathrooms, the garage and the […]

……The tough get going!  I’ll bet you’ve heard that more times than you’d care to count in your life.  It’s one of those, “My mom always said…” sorts of things that you came to dread in your youth, right?  Well, guess what?  As is usually the case as we mature, we find out that Mom […]

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It always seems as though not much is getting done  in my sewing nook during the week.  However, when I look back, I’m surprised at how much sewing and/or crafting I was able to get to in little snippets of time.  Hmmm…..15 minutes here and 15 minutes there Here are this week’s Works In Progress, […]

Just when I begin to think that Copper really doesn’t pay much attention to my blog, he comes home and says, “You didn’t post your Favorite Things Friday today.”.  Hmmmm……I didn’t know he was paying attention.  You know what???  It’s really, really nice that he is!! Thanks, Honey! So, no, I didn’t do my normal […]