Sweet Nest

Portofino, Italy Just kidding! Humor or funny fibs, seems to be a conversation starter often employed over here. It's in jest but ...

At school, the children in Jane's class work on memorizing a new poem each month. I'm amazed with Jane's increasing capacit...

While sitting around the breakfast table: Peter: So, Jane. When are ya' going to grow a beard? Jane: (completely deadpan) Noon.

Dinnertime conversation: Pops: I was talking to our neighbors and found out that Mrs. R is going to have twins! - (general excitement com...

When I was little, Grandpa and Nanie V. lived on a farm. We'd run the cornfields looking for baby kittens, eat our lunches in those ...

"Mom. I'm not a pussycat. I'm a Wild cat." Oh, yes. I see that now. Most ferocious, indeed.

Oh. My. Goodness! We have bunnies! Darling, fluffy, furry bunnies! We knew they had dug a burrow, but had no idea that it was as deep as i...

The girls discovered that we had some blueberries ready in the backyard. Not an abundant supply, but definitely enough to make something ta...

She padded past me with these on her feet. "What happened?" I asked. Without breaking her stride she responded, "They got wo...

Do you feel any older today, Lucette? Actually ... I do. And taller too. It happens each year right before my birthday ... I feel it in my k...

I'm a little late in clearing out the garden box and starting the spring seed plantings, but I just haven't been ready to uproot the...

Jane, guess what? What ? I love you very much. I know. You do? How do you know that? Well, you always love me! Yes, that's true. So ... ...

It is not good to cross the bridge before you get to it. -J. Dench

My mother made this tooth-fairy pillow for me when I was Lucette's age. The age when little girls start turning into bigger little girls...

After donning the lacy headscarf from the thrift store, she danced down the pink blossomed sidewalk and declared: "Ladies don't run...

Jane started ballet lessons today. You can see her enthusiastic hand raised just at the very tip-top right. She was so excited and talked no...

Peter said to me, "Mom, I really love it when the house is decorated for Christmas. It just makes me feel so ... so nice inside." ...

Peter: Hey, Lucette. Tonight, if we have time, wanna do slow-motion wrestling? Lucette: Yep.

I am loving these shoes so much, I want to hop up and down. I saw them at the thrift store a few weeks ago, but couldn't bring myself t...

I don't want to eat this green pepper. Well Jane, you need to. (with a furrowed brown and disrespectful look...) I am going to cross you...