However imperfectly I observe Advent, there is still a build up in these last few days before the Big One. A sense of anticipation and

Christmas is slowly coming into the home. We are not a get-the-tree-the-day-after-Thanksgiving family. We are also not a thou-shalt-wait-until-Christmas-Eve-and-respect-the-twelve-days-of-Christmas either. I go more off of

Very little to say today, except that the weather has been magical: cold and wintery and frosty. The little pond is frozen and the children

One reason that I rarely use social media for my blog is that I don’t like how it feels to come up with posts that

The temperature dropped yesterday – just enough to have a slight hint of frost on the meadow near the woods, and to make me glad