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New Christmas Jammies!

Every year after we’ve stuffed ourselves with our turkey feast on Thanksgiving, we curl up and fight off our food coma long enough to watch our first annual showing of Home Alone. It’s our Christmas kick-off tradition. Last year I decided to add to the tradition and get us new Christmas jammies, to be opened...

SCIS Halloween Carnival

Our Lower School throws an annual Halloween Carnival, and I’ve had the pleasure of being on the committee the past 2 years. Love it! You can check out all the fun from last year here. We made spider hats for Halloween! How CUTE are my little spiders?! ALL of the kids who attended the carnival got...

China Trips 2012: Chengdu

One of the fondest memories I have from growing up in Oregon was my 6th grade Outdoor School trip to Camp Yamhill. It was a simple 4 day trip to a humble campground in the forests of Western Oregon. We stayed in log cabins that had no heat and maybe a touch of electricity for...

Wayfarer Cottage October Renovations

October has been a month filled with priming and  painting at Wayfarer Cottage. Rich, Sandy, Rachel, and Morgan (cutest little painter ever!) put a second exterior coat on the cottage, and only some small details and trim work remain. We can tackle those tasks when we’re home next summer, and the warmer, drier weather returns....

Wayfarer Cottage September Renovations

Wayfarer Cottage got a fresh new coat of exterior paint… no more little green avocado! Thanks, dream team! Bella the supervisor, hard at work! Brand new matching beams across the living room (above) and dining room (below). The crossbeams actually rest upon these beams and support the roof- what a novel idea! Quick fix for...