Approaching Fall

Even as we enjoy the warm sunny weather, its impossible to ignore the feel of fall in the air.

Olympics!

Let The Sun Shine In

Chalkboard art for summer days:

Summer, Maybe?

I threw a wish in the well, don’t ask me I’ll never tell. . . well, ok, I wished for summer! Here’s my chalkboard porch sign in honor of the start of summer – or as we know it around these parts, Junuary (alternately,…

Last Day of Preschool

Mother’s Day Entertaining, Part One

Today we had Bappa and Nana over for dinner for birthdays and Mother’s Day celebrating. I made a green bean salad from the Simply Classic cookbook (to go along with chicken and veggie skewers and white rice). I also updated the chalkboard entry table:

Bienvenidos Tita

The kids’ abuela (grandma) is arriving Tuesday morning, so we’ve been getting the house ready to welcome her. The chalk sign says “Bienvenidos Tita” which means “Welcome Tita”. Tita is their pet name for her – its a diminutive of a diminutive – it…

Decorating the Garden For Easter

It was so beautiful today that on the way home from the store my daughter and I had the same idea – lets decorate the garden for Easter! We got out the eggs we made last year (plastic Easter eggs stuck onto little sticks…