I pray you have a blessed 2010! I’ve a few resolutions: 1. Work on 1 new goal each month. January’s is: start school 1/11/10. K5 starts in earnest. I have waiting to officially start schooling the children, studying and preparing for 5 years now. Now to be disciplined and put the knowledge into practice. Three…
I have a tradition of not finishing the children’s annual Christmas ornaments … ever. But *this* year, I not only got the past years’ ornaments done, but I finished this years’ ornaments yesterday, and the kids put them on the tree today! R-girl chose the star: N-boy very generously chose the holly leaves & berries:…
Enter his gates with thanksgiving,and his courts with praise!Give thanks to him; bless his name! For the Lord is good;his steadfast love endures forever,and his faithfulness to all generations. Psalm 100:4-5
“A cat had a broom and a mop for he had to clean.”
My mom made the Dorothy costume for M-girl’s birthday, leading to my making the costumes for N-boy and R-girl.
We went to the county fair this evening and had a great time seeing the animals and the work people put into their hobbies: animal husbandry, gardening, photography, woodworking, and sewing! I have a photo like this with our friends the Tullys from 4 years ago when M-girl was almost 1 … hard to believe…
We had no problems finding Char-Mar Ridge. What a great hike it is! About a mile and a half, through beautiful woods winding across and around a creek. We looked for glacial erratics, white/red oaks, and shelf fungi. Once again, we found them all! Not only did we find shelf fungi, but we saw several…
Thank you to all those in service, praying to those on active duty! Parades, cooking out (hopefully between thunderstorms!), fireworks! Hobby Lobby took out a full-page ad full of quotes about God and the United States, see it here. You can see all their past ads (Christmas, Easter, Independence Day) here. I’m going to try…
Our first Letterboxing adventure was finding the park! We decided to go today (Sunday) because the first trail is closer to my parents’ house than to ours. We made a wrong “non-turn” and turned around after talking to a park ranger at a different park (different park system, even!) and found our way into Sunbury,…