I know I’ve already said it in so many words, but this has probably been the most stressful Christmas season yet. (Hence the reason why I’m up at 5:45…don’t ask me why I’m doing my blog instead of a million other things that need to be done, but, hey, this is my journal.) And it…
I can’t sleep. I’ve been lying there in the dark listening to the sound of the fan, mulling over why in the world I can’t keep up with life. Why does everyone else seem to be handling it fine while I’m barely keeping my head above water? I realize the fact that we’ve had a…
We’re home safe and sound trying to hit the ground running to catch up again, and trying to scrounge up some Halloween costumes for parties that are now bombarding our calendar. I’m just going to write the segments of our trip when I get snippets of time here and there. Oh my word did we…
Dave is out of town…again. This is what he missed out on this Saturday:-waking up early to the sound of our kids jumping and yelling (nicely but loudly) on the trampoline…I’m sure the neighbors were pleased-the Saturday job routine-a morning photo shoot-cleaning up the disaster in the kitchen following the photo shoot-listening to uplifting conference…
Grace turned six this week. Oh my word was she ever excited. The countdown began weeks ago and she could hardly believe her luck when the day finally came…even despite the fact we’re not doing friend b-day parties this year.The thing she was very most excited about was that she got to get her ears…
June 20, 2007 Following an intense discussion my kids came to me the other day and asked how they could earn $3.50. When I asked why they told me they really wanted to buy a new game for the Wii (they’re expensive! $49.50). Max would contribute all his birthday money ($40), Elle would contribute all…
Well, Lucy’s officially joined the rest of the world in the ten-toe club. She got her eleventh toe removed yesterday morning. We were actually kinda sad to see it go…we’ve grown attached to that little thing. Here are the last pictures we got of it…But it was time. It started turning all crooked and backwards…