Life of the Lorenzens

This afternoon we took a family field trip to a recently remodeled 1868 farmhouse to get ideas for our next remodeling project.  They had a ...

...a tradition and coping mechanism that gets you through until football season starts again.

Growing up 100% Dutch in a Dutch community, St. Patrick's Day was usually nothing more than a blip on the calendar where you might think...

Emily acquired quite a collection of Lego Friends kits over her birthday and Christmas.  While she enjoyed assembling and disassembling them...

Battles over food are common with Emily.  She is going through the picky-eater stage and uses it as an opportunity to occasionally test boun...

It has been a long winter, and spring is slow in coming. (Is it too much to ask for 40 degrees at any point in March?!?)  There are hopeful ...

The kids & I headed to NW Iowa this weekend to visit my family.  We had fun playing at my sister's house with Cousin Ryan and holdin...

With the newest 5" of snow, we invited our international college student, Andjelka, over to play.  She took the kids sledding on the ho...

I often lay down with Lincoln for nap time and sleep an hour myself.  On the latest snow day (we're up to #7 now), Emily entertained her...

Lincoln had refused to take a nap earlier in the day.  Then he crawled up onto my lap in the office at 4:00pm and proved he still needs an a...