Finger Knitting

Finger Knitting

I’m not much of a seamstress. In fact, I don’t know that I could sew a button on if someone handed me said materials.  What I don’t do certainly makes for a lengthy read, and while sometimes that can haunt me so, life is filled with too many full...
Homeschooling This Year

Homeschooling This Year

We’ve been busy bees at the shop this week, and I’m turning in half of my manuscript on Monday (ahhh!).  I have a few more projects to photograph, edit, and write, but I think I just may make it. And we’re having a little man’s birthday party...
oversized oysters & beach days

oversized oysters & beach days

There’s a few things I love about being on the coast… Air dried hair, for one. Less makeup than normal. Except for eyeliner.  I look dead without eyeliner. Little sundresses & tanks. Bare feet.  Oh, I love my wee one’s little toes. It’s the...
lost, on our way to found

lost, on our way to found

I’ve been meaning to write this one for a while.  It’s been some time since we talked about homeschooling. Our year started like this, all painted crafts and lesson plans.  It was a grand idea, and a grand plan, and it may have remained exactly the same if...

stepping out of the boat

Somehow, some way, I think I knew this was going to happen before my children left the nest. For reasons I cannot explain (and some I can), we are homeschooling Grayson this year. And when I say it’s a leap of faith, I mean it’s a leap across a chasm the...