I still remember the first day of my freshman year of high school. I was incredibly shy. My sister Saren was two years older than me and I clung onto her arm for dear life. I remember her walking me to my first class, which was dance (before I realized I didn’t have an ounce…
It is the last day of school here in the desert. I’m trying to sort out my feelings about this one. My baby is graduating from Junior High School. And part of that makes me pleased as punch. And another part of that makes me feel hollow and empty and all kinds of emotional. But…
Or Elle, as we know and love her here at home…it was so fun to have her HOME for the big day. I wrote about what I love about her back HERE, but here’s what we did to celebrate: Lucy, true to form, was very on top of the prep work, namely making sure she…
Word of warning…there are a lot of pictures in this post. But we’re used to lots of pictures here on 71toes, right? A few years ago I had the opportunity to take my three middle girls to NYC (part 1 HERE, and part 2 HERE). When we got back, raving about all we had seen…
I don’t want to take away from that Thanksgiving post, but I’m sneaking this in at the end of the day here because I’m trying to catch up! Here we go back into October for a little bit… October started off strong with the highly anticipated birthday of this child: …who made it into the…
We’re trying to go whole-grain around here. If Dave and I have it our way, little by little these kids are gonna start begging for flax-seed and cracked wheat. So we thank our lucky stars over and over again for the whole wheat pancakes Dave’s sister Julie whipped up for us one day. They were SO…