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What an exciting day! We got four inches or so of snow today, which is relatively uncommon here, although not rare. The kids thought we hadn’t had any snow last winter (I haven’t gone through my pictures to check), and this was really the first time that E3 remembers getting to play in it. They had a blast […]

It was a day amateur genealogists like me dream of. My father-in-law’s family sent him a couple of tubes filled with documents and notes about both sides of his family. Most of this was information I had been unable to find in my searches in the known databases. So I had a blast reading through […]

Well, we’re continuing with the cooking theme. 🙂 I forget sometimes how old E1 is. I mean, I can tell you the number of years of her life, but the concept of just how old that is often escapes me. To me, it was just yesterday she was helping me in the kitchen like E3 is […]

Three is such a fun age. I love the wonder and how everything is new. The imagination. Being independent, yet still needing me right there. Helping Mom is still fun. A few weeks ago the three oldest kids visited with their grandparents for the afternoon, and while they were there E3 helped my FIL make homemade noodles. […]

There’s just something special about brothers and sisters. Even though E4 isn’t yet 4 months old, she is developing a special connection with each of her siblings, and they are all different. With E1, she is very soft and quiet, but will intently talk to her like she’s telling the secrets of the universe. With E2, […]

I had been avoiding doing any sort of digital processing on my photos, but Wyowoman convinced me yesterday that processing is not necessarily bad. So I slightly adjusted the photo on January 7  for the white balance, and its success has prompted me to play with the processing a little more today. E1 graciously allowed me to […]

As of January 7, we have had a total of 5.28 inches of rain for 2007. With the wind blowing and the rain coming down yet again, I really want homemade, fresh-from-the-oven cookies. I tell the kids, and they get really excited, so off to the kitchen we go. E2 runs to get his Kids […]

Family is very important to us, and we have felt blessed that we’ve lived close to my husband’s family for the last seven years. For almost the whole seven years, we’ve had a tradition to get together weekly. For a while it will be Saturdays, then Fridays, then back to Saturdays, depending on what’s going on […]