Shotsnaps

Tommy always shares his finds unselfishly. These tent caterpillars (or flying caterpillars, as Tommy used to think they were "when he w...

Here's a long, silly story to explain two silly pictures. I was sweating in the garden, working on a peeling nose and a sunburn while lo...

And here's what I really look like without using the portrait setting. (Thanks to Beck for taking these three pictures.) Millie's n...

This past week the girls and I again went to Nanticoke, only this time for a treasure hunt. Our heart's desire? Dark, rich, black gold-...

My mom made fresh rhubarb crunch, and Millie helped her in the rhubarb patch. She also discovered that raw rhubarb, though yummy, is a bit t...

The next morning, only Susannah and I were awake to wave John off to work. As we walked out, John and I joked about the beauty of manure in ...

The week before last, the girls and I drove to Nanticoke to put a desk in storage. We arrived in time to catch a few turns on the tractor as...

Right before we drove home, we went up to the pole barn to drop off the desk. Driving up Mount Hunger, I gasped at the sky and stopped the c...

I had just given my girls a bath one hour before, and it's not permanent grime. It is, however, spring and summertime grime, which mean...

Two weeks ago, we had an bonafide adventure! It wasn't an overrated grocery-shopping/laundromat/Fabulous Finds adventure, either. We dro...

We went to the park while John drove around town with Susannah. The girls were in heaven. There was a brief interlude of purgatory, though,...