Throughout my childhood, I found snow globes to be magical and mesmerizing. I would shake them up, set them down, and watch the snow slowly fall to the bottom again and again. This was especially fascinating to a child...
Do you have an Elf on the Shelf?
We do. Her name is Jingle.
I was super excited to start this tradition when I heard stories of a co-worker's mischievous elf two years ago. Elf painting red noses on the children's...
Chunky blankets, cozy pillows, and relaxing fragrances. I just described the perfect bedroom or living room atmosphere in my book and also according to the principles of Hygge. Hygge is a Danish and Norwegian term that refers to making...
Dear Friends,
I photographed and documented every event in my precious child's life, and now the digital sh*t has hit the proverbial fan, and my computer memory is full.
Houston, we have a problem. How many mamas are right there with...
This past school year, my preschooler was in school four mornings a week for about three hours each day.
There were a lot of good things about that: he got scheduled time to play with his peers, he learned a...
My parents have both been blessed with green thumbs that would make Mother Nature herself proud. Throughout my childhood, the two of them maintained a vegetable garden that was approximately one-quarter of an acre in size and provided our...
I may have mentioned it a time or six, but I made my Christmas gifts this year. I'm sure my family's collective "great!" was really more like "great". But still, I enjoyed it so much and knew I had...
I learned how to sew some 20-odd years ago, and have spent the last 15ish years as a professional seamstress, first as a costume seamstress for a large theme park down in Florida, then in the Plattsburgh and Burlington...
One day I was going through our guest bedroom closet and I came across this huge box that was taking up so much space. Inside this box is something that I only used once, I am never going to...
With the holidays here in full swing, Jason, my husband, and I have had several conversations of new traditions we want to start with our 9 month old daughter, Caroline.
For Thanksgiving, we took a huge leap and invited...
I have loved crafts my entire life.
Now that I have children, I want to pass on my love of crafts to them. They are finally old enough to be able to do crafting activities with minimal supervision. I want...
I am a former wedding and portrait photographer with a dirty secret: I now take almost all of my photos with a cell phone.
My college degree is in photography, and for almost ten years after finishing my school I...
Let’s celebrate Halloween with a fun treat!
This cute Halloween spiderweb cake is easy to make and delicious to eat! My kids absolutely love celebrating holidays. They also enjoy baking with me and devouring the treats we create. This project...
I finally decided to go ahead and start painting my kids' rooms!
I'm not really big on projects, so the paint on the walls of their rooms is from before they were born. (They are now 8 and 10 years...
In + Around Vermont
Moving to the Vermont Gayborhood of Our Dreams
My wife and I, with our then 2-year-old, moved to Vermont in 2021 from rural Missouri.
While we had great friends and community in Missouri,...
