This little boy is four!

Well, it’s hard to believe how quickly time flies in a year, and never seemingly so fast as from birthday to birthday. Alexander is so entirely such a little boy now, riding his two-wheel birthday bike (still with training-wheels of course), singing a million songs, and such a little helper Continue Reading

Baking, and Frosting, and Sprinkling– oh my!

We’ve had a good baking week this week.  Sunday Alexander and Muma made her favorite Linzer cookies– happy little jam filled stars cookies with cloves, cinnamon, and pecans.  They look like this (though I didn’t take a picture of mine before we ate most of them :0 !) Tuesday, after Continue Reading

Fall in the Forest- a spontaneous “welcome fall” event.

It was a couple of Thursdays ago when Alexander came up to me after several minutes of playing by himself (gasp!) and asked. “Muma- what can we do?” “I don’t know, what would you like to do?” “We should have a party!” We occasionally have little pretend birthday parties for Continue Reading

The Big Loop

This year we took a special trip up to the U.P. for our good friends Jennifer and Jason’s wedding.  Instead of making a long, straight drive, we decided to split it up into a series of smaller drives and excursions, making the big loop up through the U.P. and back Continue Reading