Irina's Diary

Ingredients : 2 lbs butternut squash (1 Costco box) 2 potatoes 1/4 onion 2 garlic cloves 3 cans chicken or vegetable soup 1/8 tsp nut...

 The only picture we took on the night Fr. Pendergraft came for dinner: the salad and appetizers. I can't believe we forgot to take pi...

A couple of weeks ago, when it was still warm outside, Cecilia set up this little lemonade stand with a sign :$7 (actually 7cents is wha...

Hi Everyone, It's been almost a year and I'm finally in a blogging mood again, although I will probably post on my homeschooling bl...

Alex was just out of the bath and in his pj, so we didn't change him, but he has an outfit just like his brothers Somehow that doll alwa...

December 2004 (Teddy, 6) January 2005 (Teddy, 6) November 2008 (Teddy, 10) October 2008 (Teddy, 10) October 2008 (Teddy, 10) Teddy started g...

...our family. I was gonna do the whole day but at 1:30pm the batteries in my camera died, so I had to stop. This was on Tuesday, last week....

Our tradition is to have 2 celebrations for each of the children's birthdays, one on the actual birthday, when we just have a little par...

UPDATE: Those burgers were indeed horrendous, even though Benedict ate an entire burger and the other kids ate about half each, which is pre...

If you're wondering why I'm not writing on my blog very often, well that's because we're trying here to start the new routin...

They seemed to be quite aware of each other's presence, which is about all you can expect from a 5 and a 3 months old on a play date.

We've had Teddy and Benedict in the German school in the past, Teddy for two nonconsecutive years and Benedict for one year. They both h...

My cousin, Laura Moisin, who lives in New York, just opened her author blog for the book she wrote. The book, called "Kid Rex" i...

No, I wasn't planning on introducing it to Sophia before 6 months. She's happily and exclusively breastfeeding but, what do you thin...

She's sitting on a quilt that Tavis made for her a while ago, with the help of his grandma Judy. He asked his grandma to teach him and t...

So what does a mother of five do an a Saturday evening? She could do a number of things, like watch a movie, eat out, read, relax after a d...

This was written by Teddy when he was in 1st grade at Westgate Elementary, our local public school. Even at that very young age, they were l...

Teddy fishing on a boat on Friday Harbor The boys and Dominic took a trip last weekend on Lopez Island (part of the San Juan Islands). They ...