Introduction Once Upon a Time… it was two days before Halloween this year and Josh was hard at work on his fabulous haunt experience. At some point during the day of setting up for our little family party the idea struck me that we needed a cozy faux fur rug for our Christmas decor. I […]

As 2017 comes to a close, I wanted to share some things about my theme for this past year: delight. First off, I’m basically totally converted to the idea of choosing a verb to focus on throughout the year as opposed to individual goals. It was so much easier to just think delight than think about […]

I don’t have anything particularly fancy to say this week. But we did enjoy living it! So here are some pictures of what we enjoyed. On Monday, while Fay was at school, Carter, Portia and I played in some leaves as we were raking them. I would say that approximately 80% of the leaves in […]

This past week we spent at a family reunion in Florida! The weather was absolutely glorious most of the time, and a little on the hot side one of the days. We are really cool (aka: not cool) and hardly took any pictures. But here’s what we’ve got. First we rode on an airplane. Carter […]

We had a crazy whirlwind of a final week of October.  We had parties literally every night but one and we also had the stomach flu. So, not everybody attended every party, but still. Plus, we had our annual Halloween production, if you will. Check it out! First, our costumes. I made/assembled all the costumes except […]

A couple very exciting things happened on Monday. First was that we got Fay’s first school picture back and it looks flawlessly cute! (This was actually a huge relief, because when Fay came home from school on picture day her hair looked like she had gotten the little pony-tail stuck on a tree branch or […]

The autumn enjoyment continues around here! This past week we went to our kids’ favorite autumn destination: Cornbelly’s. There are a lot of places around that have similar fall festivities, but Cornbelly’s has the corn-maze which is what sells it for me. But also, there is just SO much to do there! We never get […]

We Monsons love Halloween! First of all, it is just fun to have spooky stuff around, like adorable ghosts, cutsie smiling jack-o-lanterns, and happy undead mummies! I don’t like scary or gruesome things, and Josh is very kind and tries to keep things to just the spooky level. I greatly appreciate that! Anyway, we have […]

I have been super excited for Autumn ever since my birthday in July. But I have been trying to be patient and wait for it to actually get here before I decorate for it and celebrate it. I decided back in August (I think) that I would wait no longer than the autumnal equinox (the […]

Fay has mentioned that it really isn’t back to school as she has never gone. But I was going to school FOREVER, so it definitely feels like going back for me! Anyway, I debated whether to post Fay’s picture before (her first day was last Thursday), but I thought it would be fun to post Fay and Carter […]