Once Upon a Family

  Playing with gifts.   This was a dancing tree with a face in it and it sang some Christmas song in a crazy voice.  I remember ...

When Dancer was born I decided that I just couldn't leave her at a daycare and let someone else have fun with her all day while I was w...

Kacheekers is in the basket.  Happy May Day! He was sitting in there so cute but, like all animals you want to take a picture of, by...

There are things my mother did that when I got older I swore I would never do.  One of her pet peeves was when I would wash dishes and leave...

When I was a kid, most Sundays we would have my grandma over for dinner and my mom would always make chicken with rice.  On our birthdays we...

Dancer's breakfast.  The kids love Raisin Brand, it's the only kind they eat, going through at least a couple boxes a week.  Good t...

All summer Dad has been watching Craig's List for a canoe and there haven't been any to be found.  Lately though there are just scad...

Made with pattern Simplicity 2319 and Bob and Larry Veggie Tale fabric.  I smile just looking at those little guys.  We have such good memo...

The last week or so we have been cleaning out things that are clogging up our house to get ready for the 4-H garage sale.  Today was the gar...

Dancer has this new obsession with the t.v. show Family Ties.  We get it on the Hub channel four nights a week and she rarely misses it.  Ju...

We were all enjoying a nice dinner this past Saturday, it had been a day of hard work in the barn and then some time spent with grandma.  Sp...

Every New Year's Eve we have crab legs and frozen corn.  I don't know why the frozen corn except we did it once and now we just pul...

My title of the post pretty much wrapped up the project.  If you crack nuts during the holidays, this is a nice thing to do with the shel...

Dancer and I were having a little chat/pep talk last night and some how this story came to mind.  When Dancer was about three years old sh...

This is the house that Dad lived in up until the 6th grade. After 6th grade he moved to the area where I lived.  We lived in different to...

When I was pregnant with Dancer, Dad would sing this song to my stomach. You're my little potato, you're my little potato You com...

The side of our garage had gotten a bit messy and out of control this summer and so it was high time we cleaned it up.  A lot of things we j...

Peanut butter tomato toast is one of our favorite ways to eat tomatoes.  The moistness of the tomato blends perfectly with the melty peanut...

When I graduated from high school my parents gave me a 35mm Cannon camera.  I love taking pictures, even taking a photography course in coll...

I hate clutter and I hate junk, however, we seem to have a plethora of stuff. When we moved to our current house, we thought that we may sti...