the world of weed

Determined is not a word I would generally use to describe Rachel.  She's never really been determined about anything.  She can't ri...

Our church picnic was also last weekend.  Rachel looks forward to it every year. Not a great family picture, but the only one we got al...

My husband's been talking all summer about taking the girls camping.  I'm not a camper, so I didn't really want to go, but I...

A couple of weeks ago our local metropark had Monarch Day.  We've gone before and Rachel has really enjoyed it, so we tried it out again...

I've been a little busy.  That, and I can't seem to get pictures onto my laptop or ipad anymore, which means I have to go up to the ...

Last week's "first day of school" for Rebecca was an orientation and Daddy stayed with her.  Today was the first day that she ...

This morning after we took Rachel to the bus stop, Rebecca was playing with blocks while I ate my breakfast.  She made this "thing,...

It was a really big day around here.... And it was Mommy's first day at her new school, too. All went fine.  We both had or...

Last week my husband was gone, attempting to climb Mt Rainier.  (I took this picture from his Facebook page....) The weather didn't coop...

I was gone for a couple of hours this afternoon and came home to this on the table. I opened it up to find this It took me a little while to...

About a month ago I started looking on Craigslist pretty regularly for a job...some sort of teaching or tutoring.  I didn't want to teac...

Oh, these crazy clowns of mine....

Rebecca loves to ride her bike!

We met her teacher yesterday, but she's nervous about having a new teacher and new kids in her class.  She's a little more excited t...

Tomorrow is the first day of school.  I promised Rachel we'd go to the science museum this summer, so today was my last chance to keep m...