holiday sale!

Here is the new soap we made! It’s a cold-press, organic, citrus spice bar soap. It smells wonderful and is really gentle and moisturizing. It lathers very nicely too. I’m really happy with it. It sold very well at the Meet Your Maker show last week and attracted people to my table because it smelled [...]

kids books you should check out

We’ve recently checked out some books at the library that I loved and can’t wait to share with Ruby when she gets a little older. They would be excellent additions to a classroom or home library.
Artist to Artist is a collection of interviews with famous childrens’ book illustrators. The essays include some of the artist’s [...]

Little bunny

We had such a great Halloween. Ruby read a bunch of Halloween books that we censored for all the scary stuff. My favorite censor was a book that had a character who was going to t.p. someone’s house. Every time we read it, we said he was bringing the woman some toilet paper from the [...]

Big news!

I am so excited to finally announce that I’m pregnant! The little sprout is about the size of a lemon and already changing all of our routines. I’ve had so little energy and John has had to pick up a lot of the household work that I usually take care of. But we couldn’t be [...]

Happy fall and CSA report

We usually celebrate the new season by having a big meal showcasing local food and such, but John was out of town the day of, we got a hot spell in the middle of the week, and I just didn’t have the energy for it all. We’ll postpone until October sometime. But Ruby and I [...]

a giveaway!

Hello, faithful blog readers. Oh, its been a long couple of weeks. I wish I could blame it on the start of school like most people, but a lot of it is just a plain lack of energy around here.

We spent a couple of days in Portland and stayed at the Kennedy School. We ate [...]

parenting links

Kiddley a no-longer-updated website, but the archives are full of fun activities
Rookie Moms the name says it all. Posts and activities are organized by age group (through pre-school)
The Artful Parent
Kidmade another old website, but full of old goodies
Playful Learning – a new to me website that I love

how we survived the heat

Right now, its 2:00 and 65 out. It’s August. A week or so ago it was 108. I’m not sure what is happening here. We had several days of 100+ temperatures. If you don’t live here, I’m not sure I can describe to you what this is like. Most people don’t have a/c here. We [...]

Ahhhh, the coast…

My parents just finished a trip of a lifetime. My maternal grandmother passed away just before I became pregnant with Ruby. The only state she had never traveled to was Hawaii and she always wished she had. So my mother and her brother decided to go to Hawaii together in memory of my grandmother. They [...]

CSA, new stuff

I’m too hot to think straight, so this post may be a little crazy. But thats just the way things are right now…
CSA this week:
purple potatoes
purple carrots
red leaf lettuce
cucumber
walla-walla onion
scallions
Rainbow chard
moss parsley
zucchini and summer squash
raddicchio
blueberries
tomatoes
Last night (and lunch today) we ate this simple summer zucchini pasta dish that was very yummy and perfect for a [...]