I spent the evening browsing through family blogs … my kids and the nieces and nephews … What fun! It brings back so many memories of raising my own family when I read the clever things the children say and the struggles the mothers have to keep everything under control. Sometimes it doesn’t seem very [...]
1. Six quilted advent calendars by Dec 1,2008. Shoot, I wasn’t specific enough on that one. If I meant buy the material for six quilted advent calendars then heck yeah, check. If I meant packing up the material in a bin with the pattern in November so I wouldn’t have to look at it in [...]
You’re not gonna believe this but we FINALLY got the last of our decorations up! It’s December the 27th! Thank goodness we leave us up until after my birthday, which is January 10th. It is an indulgence I give myself more readily now that I don’t have small children of my own to control. Well, [...]
This Blue Nativity by Jim Shore now has a home behind the glass doors of my China cabinet. It reminds me that love isn’t a season. During the sweet still hours of Christmas midnights I find the peace and balm my spirit seeks. In the quiet shadows Lynn and I whisper together about our love [...]
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These are the Southern Utah grandchildren tonight at the piano recital. I was so pleased with how the five oldest girls bravely performed on the piano and for Steele’s job of being our announcer. Aren’t they all beautiful in their pretty Christmas dresses? And doesn’t Steele look handsome? Steele didn’t want to take piano [...]
These don’t look all that impressive to non desert dwellers but to us who live among the lizards and Gila Monsters. The kids here are ecstatic because on the 10:00 news they announced Washington County School District has decided there is no school tomorrow. The kids think they will be outside playing and making snowmen [...]
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This is my seven year old grand daughter, Luca. She is awesome! I wish I could have been there to see it in person but I am so grateful for technology that lets me share this way!
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This is what my kids were going to get this year. Well, this isn’t it because this set belongs to Elizabeth. Their sets are still in the form of material, buttons, batting, and thread. The little ornaments are to hang on the buttons you can see on the trees. It is an Advent Calendar. Neat, [...]
We made these bread ornaments thirty years ago with our good friends, the Hancey’s. We treasure them as if they were made of the finest porcelain instead of crumbled white bread and Elmer’s glue. I keep them in my China Hutch instead of packing them away each year because they are so fragile now. We [...]
When our children were babies I found a cute little song about Ichabod, a little mischievous elf who spies on the kids and then tells Santa if they are naughty or nice. Not long after they learned the song we started having little visits at the window from Ichabod himself. He’d pop his little face [...]
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