our {home}school in pictures

  We officially began our new {home}school year last week giving us something more to do with these hot August days. Here’s a bit of what we’ve been up to around here; we’re… Read More

{this moment}: this face.

    {this moment}: A Friday ritual. A single photo (or group of photos) capturing a moment from the week. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. (Inspired by soulemama) 

preparing for the drop and learning to abide

In preparation for our school year — which tends to feel a bit like those cylinder rides at amusement parks where everyone stands along the wall while you spin around so fast you… Read More

Our Life: Under Construction.

I know. I know. It was all going so well here this spring, writing each week, weaving tales and posting pictures about our life. And then, BAM, nothing. For too long. I promise… Read More

sweet goodbyes.

Everything ends at some point. Some endings bring relief, like the end of childbirth or a difficult test or race, while other endings cause a sort of grief, like reaching the bottom of… Read More

a brimming independence

I imagined this summer differently a few months ago. Mark had a full summer of classes planned and our family budget had dramatically shrunk this year, both leaving little room for a typical… Read More

summer: the sweet, lethargic hammock of rest

Wow. It’s July. I know, technically it’s time for another {this moment} but I’ve noticed myself succumbing to the ease of photo blogging and failing to actually retrieve the thoughts and words filling… Read More

{this moment}: a new cousin, brighten

{this moment}: reading at the library with dad

{this moment}: A Friday ritual. A single photo (or group of photos) capturing a moment from the week. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. (Inspired by soulemama)  Follow more of… Read More

happy father’s day.

These single days of the year we set aside to salute the parents in our lives feel to me a bit like fitting a blue whale in my 5′ bathtub. I usually try… Read More

{this moment}: first waterslide

{this moment}: A Friday ritual. A single photo (or group of photos) capturing a moment from the week. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. (Inspired by soulemama)  Follow more of… Read More

a swelling happiness

Mark’s currently taking a class on radical publishers/writers during the British Romantic period — which of course creates 1700 pages of  light summer reading for him. (Wink. Wink.)  Although he at times must… Read More

{this moment}: 1 2 3 jump!

{this moment}: A Friday ritual. A single photo (or group of photos) capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. (Inspired… Read More

our summer mantra: simple, unscheduled, & cheap

Each May, I stand at Summer’s doorstep, overcome with her freedom and bounty, only to watch too many events and activities drain those warm days like a funnel filled with fine, white sand.… Read More

t a k e i t s l o w.

I completely understand now how so many friends have traded in blogging for other social medias; Android finally advanced with Instagram, and suddenly my visual journal consumes the written one. Words? What words?… Read More

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