Purple Pants Creations now online!

In addition to substitute teaching, my other "part-time job" recently has been helping Rosalie get her home business - Purple Pants Creations - off the ground. She's been sewing like crazy for the past few weeks, getting ready for a big craft show in Hinckley this weekend. One of the things we have wanted to do is to have an online store where people who don't live nearby can purchase some of the hand made doll clothes. Well, it's now available! Check it out at purplepantscreations.ecrater.com. (If you live in or around Pine City, you're welcome to come by to see her entire stock and you can save on shipping!)

There are only a few items on the site so far (it takes a while to photograph everything!) so check back regularly - or use the RSS feed at the bottom of each category page! All the doll clothes fit 18" dolls such as American Girl or Gotz dolls.

Now we're parents of a teenager

Hard to believe, but Jordan turned 13 yesterday! I can't believe we're now parents of an honest-to-goodness teenager! (If only we had some experience dealing with teens...) We had a nice day, celebrating together as a family.

Seems like only yesterday that Jonah turned 12 (although it was only a couple of months ago!) Here's one from his birthday in September:

I'll have to get some more pictures on my Facebook page, too.