Archive for the ‘Caleb’ Category

these days

Posted on April 8th, 2012 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

The last couple of weeks, our days have been… days of drinking NORA tea with lemon and honey in the morning. NORA=Nettles, Oat straw, Red raspberry leaf, Alfalfa. I buy them in bulk and mix together. Good for pregnancy. days of eating birthday pudding (while it lasted) in the afternoon. The recipe was perfect with 2/3 […]



4-H fair girl and ski slope boy

Posted on March 12th, 2012 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

This weekend we went to the Boulder County 4-H Fair. Caleb wanted to go skiing, so we dropped him off at Eldora and went on to the fair with a very excited little girl. It was a fun little indoor fair, run by kids and their families. They had a nice mix of livestock, games, […]



first day of school

Posted on January 4th, 2012 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

Today Caleb started school. After a semester of home school, we decided that public school might just be better for Caleb right now. For everyone in our house, life has shifted dramatically enough in the past year that if we can keep some things the same as before–like Caleb’s basic schedule (and, hey–ours!)–then I think it […]



one year stronger

Posted on December 31st, 2011 by mountain girl  |  10 Comments »

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. 2011, that is. I don’t remember much about the first two months of the year, except that between David, Zia, and I, we had an inordinate number of colds, coughs, and sniffles. It was the sort of thing where Zia would catch it, […]



sweet tooth(s)

Posted on December 27th, 2011 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

By now, y’all probably know what these little sweeties mean. Yup, the boy is home again. Zia and I were the sleepyheads who stayed home whipping up a scratch batch of chocolate cupcakes while David drove to the airport to pick up Caleb this morning. Actually, they’re not cupcakes at all. They’re double chocolate brownies with […]