Last winter I knit a bamboo baby hat for a friend. I liked it so much, I made another one for Allison. Then a few weeks ago an lj-friend asked if anyone would be interested in knitting a warm hat for her baby. She requested wool, but I told her about my bamboo hats and she said it sounded nice ( Read more... )

December kind of flew by around here, bringing a lot of joy and destruction in its Decembery path. It was December of last year that a powerful storm hit our home in Aberdeen, knocking out the power of the entire coast and stranding us in a freezing home with no heat and no food with washed out roads and a lot of fear ( Read more... )

For some reason, it is taking a lot of willpower for me to write this. I really do want advice, but its emotionally taxing for me, I guess because its a dumb situation that could have easily been avoided except for the part where I was lame ( Read more... )

Merry Kiffis from us to youReligion is a tough one in our household. To be honest, we’re a little bit of everything. I was raised mostly Jewish, with a bit of secular Christian holidays thrown in by my mom for good measure. My husband was raised Christian but has wavered back and forth with his beliefs over the years ( Read more... )

We are going to my work's formal Christmas party tonight. I will be wearing the red dress that Stephen got me for my birthday. Ben will be going to a babysitter's house. This is the first time he's been babysat by someone we have to pay since last year's Christmas party. You'll never believe where we met the babysitter. She was our waitress at ( Read more... )

When we were shopping for houses about a year and a half ago, I was pretty insistent that the home we purchased have a fireplace. We were going from a brand-new custom made for us home to an area where all the homes were about 80 years old or more. So if we couldn't have all the nicest, newest stuff, I at least wanted to have some old-world charm, ( Read more... )

My MIL started this brilliant idea last year of having Thanksgiving at her house the Saturday before actual Thanksgiving, so that everyone could be there. That way she didn't have to deal with all her daughters-in-law stealing her sons and grandchildren away to be with their families. She was frustrated that it was so hard to get everyone together ( Read more... )

Growing up, my mom always insisted we have a real tree, and many years we went to the farm to cut it down ourselves. (OK, my uncle did the cutting.) I grew up with a major authenticity complex, not just about Christmas trees, but about pretty much everything. Why use fake stuff when you can have the real thing? This applies to so many things in my ( Read more... )

This town is absolutely crazy about Relay for Life. We routinely raise more money than cities more than three times our size. Here at my work, they hold fund-raisers for the relay all year long, one of which is going on right now. For a few weeks, employees were called upon to donate things to the silent auction (homemade items or purchased, doesn’ ( Read more... )

One of the things I really regret about the weeks following Benjamin's birth is that I never got around to sending out birth announcements. My friend got me some cute ones, but it was all I could do to manage to write out the required thank you cards.

A much better idea is to get photo birth announcements online, because you know that everyone ( Read more... )