This year has been a busy one in our family, particularly for Emily, who has an insane course load for her junior year. All of this meant that none of us had a lot of time to play with Holly, so she obliged us by sticking around longer than usual, working her magic with us […]
Holly is back!!!! (You can see her work from previous years here!) It’s been a somewhat stressful few months around here, so I am so excited to have her around again because she is making me smile pretty much every day… In our family the Elf on the Shelf is a little different, because of […]
We are entering year three of our Elf! (Year one is here, and year two is here and here.) Admittedly, she hasn’t been as busy this year as she normally is—life has been pretty crazy for us and the holidays sort of crept up on me. But still, Holly is keeping us entertained! She hid […]
I think this might be the last we see of Holly this year, as tomorrow is Christmas and her work with us will be done! (If you missed the first half of her season with us, you can find it here.) Holly has been quite busy with Tom since he returned from his business trip. […]
Last Christmas brought with it a new tradition for our family: Holly, our Elf on the Shelf. For us, Holly is a whole-family tradition, because we take turns helping her to carry out her ideas. So far it’s just been Emily and I because Tom has been on a business trip, but we can’t wait […]
This year we started a new tradition that seems to be all the rage these days–the Elf on a Shelf. The idea is that the Elf (Emily named ours Holly) watches the children in a household during the day, and then she reports back each night to Santa on whether each child was naughty or […]
My 5D Mark III photos are included here, but this post includes my favorite iPhone images from our trip. (See my IG account, summer of 2017, for the daily details!) I can never resist taking airplane-window photos. Even though we fly fairly often, I am always amazed by the sheer craziness of being up in […]
We’d been dreaming of this European adventure for years, and finally last summer we made it happen! When Emily decided to take French in school (and she stuck with it for six years, often to the exclusion of other, less rigorous electives), we chose to go to France and England, and as a graduation gift […]