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Do You Use Your Family Heirlooms?

Do you have family heirlooms?  Maybe you have items generations old or maybe just handed down from your own childhood.  Are they out in the public space, being used and adored?  Or are they packed away for “someday” or even just to be handed down yet again?

Recently we found a bowl and plate set [...]

Thank You Notes

There is something about New Year’s that makes me thankful.  I think it’s that I always wrote my Christmas thank you notes about now. Do you write thank you notes?

My mom always insisted on thank you notes and as I child I hated them.  But something funny happened in my late twenties…I started to [...]

You Are My Sunshine

One of my favorite songs for the boys is You Are My Sunshine – well, the one verse that goes like this…”you are my sunshine, my only sunshine/ You make me happy when skies are gray/  You’ll never know dear how much I love you/ Please don’t take my sunshine away.”  (For the fuller, somewhat [...]

13 Cupholders and other Minivan amenities

If you have been reading along you know that we recently added Gabriel to the family and he is now just over two months old.  In that time we have done a fair bit of driving.  The four of us.  And just the four of us because that is all we could fit in the [...]

Granola or Rude?: Kid’s Parties

Here begins an occasional series I am going to call “Granola or Rude?”

My wacky left of center self sees the materialism of society as rooted in marketing…not what we need or even want.  I want to pass on to my kids that things are of limited value and that experience, time, and personal connections [...]