Labor Day falls at such a bizarre time of year. While many choose to believe that it signals the end of summer, the days continue to be brutally hot, the fruit flies fully rampant, and the peaches, tomatoes, zucchini, and corn still in their prime ripening stages. And yet, I’ve already seen fall decor donning… Read More splash pads and agua fresca
We’re not quite sure how or when it happened, but we have officially entered the picky eater phase of parental life. And it suuuuuuucks. Six months ago, we were reveling in how much our kids loved roasted vegetables. It’s a big reason why we decided to sign up for a crop share delivery — we… Read More picky eaters and kale chips
A weeknight dinner in the life of the Frels family.A three-act play. ACT 1 4:45pm. The floor of the family bathroom. Elizabeth is in the bathroom with Lilia and Arleigh. They have all just completed a successful afternoon of general house destruction and are now joining Lilia as she embarks upon her daily constitutional. She… Read More choas and pork chops
Another year, another Marian advent reflection. As you may remember, we were asked to share our parental reflections during our church’s Marian Lessons & Carols service last year. For some crazy reason, they asked us to do a follow up this year. (I guess they didn’t mind our irreverence after all!) Below is the full… Read More year two and holiday fudge
Jason and I were recently asked to give the reflection at our church’s annual Marian Lessons and Carols service. Our task: talk about what we expected pre-baby versus what we got one year later. [HA!] We doubt they expected us to be so blunt and irreverent toward parenthood, but we believe retrospective truth is better… Read More ONE and carrot cupcakes
You might as well put a revolving door on our house, because we have been visitor CENTRAL this Spring. It’s taken us some time to recover and reflect on our social season, but despite our exhaustion, our overall sentiment is: please come back. We can’t even begin to explain how much it meant to have… Read More revolving doors and stuffed dates
