Kayla had her 3rd annual Christmas tea party last Saturday. She invited 7 girls over for the occasion. There was cookie decorating – both sugar cookie cutouts and gingerbread men. I always plan several activities, but every year we hardly get to all of them, because the girls are so meticulous about the craft or… Read More Time for Tea
And the ransomed of the LORD will return And come with joyful shouting to Zion, With everlasting joy upon their heads They will find gladness and joy, And sorrow and sighing will flee away.Isaiah 35:10 It is always a great joy to spend one Sunday during Advent with a baptism service! Here is Cindy leading… Read More Second Sunday in Advent
Kory has completed several items on the list of challenges for his 12 year old Quest.Two challenges were met this week – a sewing machine project and running a 5K. He’s also read several of the books on the list in the past few months: The Master Plan of Evangelism, The Great Divorce, and I… Read More Quest Update
Every year on the day after Thanksgiving, we get our Christmas tree and spend the day decorating it and the house. Since we’ve lived in New England we’ve actually gone to real tree farms and cut our own! This year we found a new tree farm in our town that we had never been to.… Read More The Tree Tradition
We enjoyed the first snow of the season today – about 2 inches.The Christmas music was playing, there was hot cider for breakfast, and everyone was efficient with their schoolwork and chores in order to go outside and play in it! On a sad note, Buddy (our golden retriever) had a pretty severe seizure this… Read More First Snow
Finally, Robert had a real day off to do the “transition to winter” work around the house – raking leaves, replacing screens with storm windows, cleaning out mudroom, garage, etc. He had many willing helpers as it was still a school day and a Friday and there wasn’t much interest in finishing schoolwork at all!… Read More Work Day
We’ve waffled about this “holiday” for 12 years now. The kids have never done “real” trick-or-treating. In years past we have just let them get dressed up, and then we’ve made the rounds to 2 or 3 friend’s houses to show off their costumes. It became a tradition, so each house would be ready with… Read More Maiden Halloween Voyage
Riding in the van on the way to the farm from out of nowhere…. Coop: “Mom, I will have a job while I’m in college, but when I’m out I’m not going to have a job.” Me: “But Coop, how will you buy food or a house or a car?” Coop: “Well, I’m just going… Read More Choosing a career (or more Coop quotes)
Yesterday during family prayer after breakfast….. “Dear God, Help us have a safe trip to Cape Cod this weekend.And please let us have enough money for gas, souvenirs, and coffee.Amen.” Yep, that about sums up the priorities of this family on vacation! So, we’re off for a few days in an attempt at Sabbath –… Read More Priorities
I just have to brag…. Yesterday, as Robert and I made the trek to Vermont, the boys spent the day at the Baglow’s house, and Kayla went to the Gould’s. We picked Kayla up around 5p.m. I told Kory and Cooper they needed to walk home at 3p.m. and accomplish some chores before we arrived… Read More What a Kid!