...a dragon slayer, a knight and a wizard roomed the streets gathering their loot (the wizard took no part in the loot.)  They feasted, the...

(more on the Jesse tree soon...) I love this time.  This time of waiting; a space for remembering that we are part of a bigge...

St. Nicholas, bishop of Myra, was best known for giving food and money to the poor and for making toys and gingerbreads for children.  Th...

 We have entered the time of advent.  It is a time of waiting, but also a time of preparing for the great mystery of Christmas.  What does i...

Day 3 - A November Discipline of giving thanks each day. Good Stories Realized: I love helping to make our favorite stories come alive for ...

I love dressing up and planning costumes (I almost put making costumes... but right now I'm feeling very unmotivated to sew my blue plai...

 This past week our hands have been busy.  We've been collecting, cutting, tying, threading, and buttoning to make some autumn garlands ...

The nature table is turning toward spring. We picked ferns on our hike across the street this morning and I'm really enjoying the green...

Well, sometimes I'm wise enough to let go of my original ambitious plan and go with something else. Last year (you may remember this ),...

I didn't grow up with the lenten tradition, and yet, it means so much to me now. I can't imagine not using the church year to guide...

Groundhog Day is one of those days that I feel proud to be Pennsylvanian. It is a quirky tradition, but I'll take any distraction I ca...

We've been attempting to build traditions around the twelve days of Christmas. The last day of Christmas is Epiphany, which is the day...

This was our sunday school class on Easter Sunday morning.  Ten kids  and four adults and one empty tomb cake all stuffed into the tiny offi...

Well, I actually took down our bigger seasons tree (the little Easter tree is still on the nature table) today as I would like to use the sp...