One of the first chores our children have learned is to put things “IN.” If we tell a child, “Jacob, can you put it IN?” where “it” is his toy car and “IN” is the garbage, I mean the toy car basket, he’ll jump to it. The kids love putting things IN. This is especially …

Jessica met me on the stairs last night carrying a fresh load of laundry up. She held out Jacob’s freshly-washed baby blanket and said, “Feel this!” With my keen sense of the obvious, I said that it felt soft and fuzzy. She said, “It’s way soft and fuzzy! And clean! It seems like since we …

Here is Sarah examining the first batch of laundry washed with our homemade laundry soap. It was just coming out of the dryer (no clothesline; autumn is pretty rainy around here) when Sarah, age 2, came galloping in to help. She put her head into the dryer and –which is cuter, a dumb old batch …