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Luke is ten years old.

Luke is ten years old.

Happy Birthday Luke!!! Some great things you need to know about Luke. He believes in fairness at all costs He loves to make people laugh He is a super brother to three sisters He only gives dad and mom kisses if they are before we near the school He loves homemade...
new hats for winter.

new hats for winter.

I’m glad they are finished. It is cold outside!! Notice Lizzie has no socks on in this photo? Yea, how do kids feet not get cold? Mine are always cold. I knit Matheau a new hat as well, I took a couple of really quick photos so I am hoping to get one of the both...
more catch up…

more catch up…

This is going to take a while. Since last September, the older 3 kids and Matheau have been taking tae-kwan-doe. This was at Matheau and Hannah’s second tourniment, Alli and Luke’s first. They all rocked! Decorating this last weekend at Mom and...

well, it has been a long time.

and we are getting close to winter so now as good of time to jump back in and blog here again. Let’s start simple with some photos from birthdays and apple picking. 😉

It is no longer winter.

Over three months is a long time not too post. It is hard to know whether I should start again or just let the blog be. There have been a lot of snows, some really lovely days, and rain, all since January 15. And there has been a lot of life taking place. School done,...

math time.

It looks peaceful doesn’t it?  In one of our  home schooling days these moments last about 4-5 minutes, and then someone needs help with a new section of math, finding a missing crayon, pencil sharpener… a plea for less work is made… However short...

Haiti.

Just last year around this time our friends Suzanne and Chris were in Haiti bringing home their daughters, Lovely and Rosalynda. After 2 years of waiting for the girls, they were picking them up. I just keep thinking of the miracle that they are here safe with  Chris...

a pattern for knitting.

The Autumn/Winter of 2008, Toast catalog had some beautiful, simple hand warmers. Just lovely, anyway… when scrolling some blogs I found a free pattern for them. So, I must confess, basically all I have done is tweak the pattern to use smaller needles and change...

the beginning of the week.

making plans for the week. school starting back up, a visit to the library and the grocery store. searching for our “groove.”