When last we spoke, dear blog, over two years ago now, my family and I were living in a rented house in Charm City (Baltimore, for the uninitiated), with no pets, very few plants, and a partner/father who we really only saw on weekends, due to his very long daily commute. We are now in possession, in reverse-listed-not-chronological order, of one official-on-paper Husband who works from home and whom we are all so glad to see much more often, a front *and* backyard which will someday (soon?) be a lovely garden, a cat (atchoo!), in our very own home, in a small city in south central Pennsylvania. That seems like a lot of change for such a short period of time, but only when I type it out.

We are still homeschooling, although Saoirse was, I’m going to go ahead and say Blessed, (a word I have had many tiny arguments with, but which comes in particularly useful in certain instances), with a year of preschool at the comfortably small and sweet school where Alden spent his Kindergarten year. Now we busy ourselves with nature, art, and co-op classes, meetups with our dear old Maryland friends, outings with newer, more local friends, wearing costumes on errands, and trying to play with the cat without being accidentally scratched. It’s not bad.

I am hoping to get back into blogging regularly, mostly as a way to keep track of my own projects with the house and garden, homeschooling and creating. Maybe people will be interested, maybe not, but I find the format easier than paper journaling, since my drawings always disappoint me, my handwriting is not always beautiful, and I tend to have an abundance of photos. Here we are.