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- Musee’ de Littlejohnesque Frigidaire
Our kids are artists. Both of them spend hours and hours sitting at the kitchen table with reams of paper, crayons, markers, pens and pencils. Of course this pleases the Papa Bear, who had the same drive as a child to create, draw and imagine. He still has not lost that, and has passed that […]
- Inch By Inch, Row by Row
We’ve been garden-free for a number of years. We moved from our home in Bellingham, which was a gardened and landscaped half acre to a yard as small as a closet. It just didn’t seem worth spending time converting it into something beautiful, especially since we only planned on being there for such a short […]
- Construction
Jude has rediscovered his blocks. The other morning he was wandering around the house, asking us each in turn, “Where my bocks? Tan’t find dem, Mama?” When the blocks were located, he dragged the basket outside and began building. Finally, after building what looked like a little village to me, Jude called me […]
- Pool Time
At our campground there was a pool, a baby pool and a hot tub. Guess where we spent a bunch of time getting sunburned? In the pool with Daddy, Gigi and Jude. Jude kept saying he was a turtle, a baby turtle that needed to ride on his Daddy’s back. So dear Bradley spent his […]
- Camping with the LJ’s
A few years ago Bradley’s parents went camping at a KOA outside of Concrete. While we were there, we couldn’t help but notice all of the super fun stuff that there was for kids to do. The pool, the giant jumpy pillow, the mini golf, the playground and the outdoor tenting fun called us back […]
