Happy new year!

I cannot think of a better way to toast in the new year than to hurtle downhill on a sled. Wild, silly fun. Bean’s grin spreading like sunshine across his face. DH laughing, truly in the moment and content, just before he bites snow for the hundredth time. The heat of our breath rising up [...]

Merry & bright

A perfect sourcream apple cake, bright blue skies, an orange tractor with doors that really open, lick-your-fingers good sticky cinnamon buns, sleeping in so late, singing to the tree with real candels lit, Bean’s face on at 6am on Christmas morning, tossled hair, kissing, watching Holiday at the movie theater, snuggled up with my guy, [...]

Things that are good:

* Sucking on a maple lollypop while doing secretive artsy things. * Watching the neighbor kids put on a Christmas play in the barn with sheep and donkeys, and all the grown ups singing carols. * Sipping hot cider and talking to neighbors while Bean raced around with a delicate waffle cookie clenched tightly in [...]

The view (and the most random, grumpy post ever)

Here are a bunch of photos I took the other night when the light was doing the most incredible things. On my way home the stormy sky was suddenly ripped open and sun burst through, right in front of the rain—creating the most remarkable and vibrant rainbow I have ever seen. Of course, I didn’t [...]

22 months

Dear Bean, As though your heartbeat were the metronome of my time passing, your growing marks my aging. You’re so big now, tousle headed and bright eyed. You stand mid-thigh to me. Two months shy of two years old, you carry rocks and cookies and other small treasures in your pockets. You are passionate about [...]