Thrift at Home

 I realized I was deleting a lot of blurry photos of Phoebe.  She's a very busy little person these days.  She climbs into her strolle...

Ben made a go-cart with his dad.  They scavenged the wheels from a broken stroller and a rusty wire shopping cart and used boards and odds a...

I guess I never thought beyond the tongue-twister ("Peter Piper picked a peck. . . ") to consider pickled peppers a real food.  My...

They each got their own library card and became responsible for their own accounts. Such excellent training in due dates, fines, and talking...

Four years ago, I made soap.  It was good soap and not as difficult as I thought it would be.  So I accumulated more fat in the freezer and...

When her friend came over, Genevieve offered to teach her to sew.  I lurked around to listen and then finally asked if I could snap some pho...

I would have called this "cheese toast with peaches" but the internets have informed me that this is called a "tartine."...