A trip home

Last weekend we went to North Carolina to visit family. The purpose of our trip was to bury my great aunt Peggy’s ashes. She passed away in May. She had been fighting breast cancer for several months. She caught a virus after her 70th birthday party and her...

“The water company”

Tonight the girls both had a melt down when we returned home from a long day at preschool and with Mimi. We forgot Natalie’s silky bear at Mimi’s house. She always says that she is old enough to sleep without it and that she does not need anymore. But if...

Gymnastics to ballet

The girls have been in gymnastics class for the past year. They have really enjoyed it. They are tumbling, doing cart wheels and walking every “balance beam” they can find. Here is a picture from their Open house performance in August. They have decided...

Big changes are happening

We started the summer with three big prayer items. I had them in a specific order in my prayer journal and that is how we prayed and sought the Lord as we made decisions. The fun thing about it is that the list got turned upside down and everything seems to be falling...

Becoming more granola

Well, tonight I really noticed that I am becoming what my husband has already labeled me – granola. I was recycling some containers, putting away the organic milk and sunflower butter while I was thinking about our school options for the fall. We are not having...