The Skarin Family Blog

We have been spending a lot of time at Papa & Gramma’s house lately, helping Papa with a variety of things, and there is certainly plenty of snow so why not enjoy it and go sledding!!!  I only wish Gramma was here to see the smiles on the monkeys faces and hear the giggles coming from their bellies! Photo slideshow...

Today we celebrated the 4th birthday of one of the sweetest little girls we know, Annalia.  It was a Doc McStuffins party complete with make your own stethoscope and doctor’s coat (both such adorable ideas…courtesy of Pintrest!)as well as pin the bandaid on Stuffy, a pinata and other fun games.  Lia was so excited about each and every one of...

I made the mistake last week of telling my Dad that I had heard on the news that Worcester had only had 9 inches of snow so far for this winter instead of the average of about 36 inches.  Well, that all changed yesterday! Over the last couple of days, Worcester got more snow than it ever has on record...

Logan has started taking photos of all sorts of random things, just like Evan did when he was Logan’s age.  He still needs to learn where to hold the camera so that his fingers aren’t in front of the lens but he did manage to get it right on this one. How you doin'?

I knew it was going to hit me and hit me hard, I just didn’t know when. The days before Mom passed were long and hard, filled with worry, tears, heartache and sadness. Strangely enough, however, the days after weren't as hard as I expected them to be.  We made the arrangements for Mom's funeral rather quickly and for the...

I have never really solidified my thoughts on the afterlife.  I don’t really know what I believe on what happens when people leave this world as we know it.  For obvious reasons, I have been giving it more thought as of late and I can honestly say that I haven’t been able to come to any conclusions.  I would like...

Miriam Webster defines strength as “the quality or state of being physically strong; the ability to resist being moved or broken by a force; the power to resist attack”.  Well, I hate to tell you, Webster, but you’re wrong. The definition of strength is a wife who loved her husband with every fiber of her being; a wife who was...

2014 was a rough year for us and I was ready to greet 2015 with a new attitude and outlook in so many ways.  On New Years Eve, I took an online quiz to get “my mantra” for 2015.  It was “I am here”.  I had a blog post developing in my head about all of the lessons I had...

I have really been enjoying my time with Logan this fall.  It is nice to have some time with just him while Evan is at school.  It’s kind of funny because when Evan was the age that Logan is now, I didn’t really get much time alone with him because we had Logan.  It is nice to see Logan’s personality...

The two little Christmas elves living in our house have been very busy these last few weeks.  They have helped with everything from picking out a Christmas tree to wrapping presents to baking cookies to decorating to putting up the village to doing Christmas projects and so much more!  They have worked hard to fill our house with holiday love...