Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing. – Jim Rohn Bringing up a family should be an adventure, not an anxious discipline in which everybody is constantly graded for performance. – Milton R. Saperstein Family and Friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their...

Spring is here in full bloom and I cannot tell you how refreshing it is!   After months of limited sun and darkness and cold,  things are looking so bright and beautiful.  The sun does not set until 10:30 pm and it is just going to be brighter and brighter,  later and later each night.    It starts getting light around 3 am, too.  On June 21st, the sun will not set at all.  It is one of the biggest...

The other day after the kids finished their school work for the day, I decided to take them down the road from us and explore the woods.  There are some wonderful nature trails and even a lake and river mingled with the forest.  Samuel packed up his dinosaur backpack with baggies for collecting anything interesting we might find and water bottles and a few snacks.   I brought along my big camera bag and...