I think the Christmas shopping is close to being done. I do have a few things left to get, but I have (God willing) placed my last online orders – which have started arriving. I spent part of the kids’ nap time yesterday wrapping up presents without “help” from Ane. She wrote up the tags […]

As I said earlier, our tree is up… actually, it has been for over a week now. But now it really does look like Christmas around here with the rest of the decorations up. There are some new ornaments on the tree – I’ll try to get pictures of them taken soon. In the meantime, […]

How cold is it? According to AccuWeather.com, when Tad goes out to the bus stop this morning, it will only be 19 degrees. When Ane goes out to the bus stop an hour and a half later, it will only be 21 degrees. Yikes. Yesterday I started a fire in our fireplace insert at 9 […]

It’s getting chilly outside… and Ane wants to know when it will snow. She seems to have forgotten completely how much she whined last winter when we got positively BURIED under snow. I keep reminding her that when it snows, there is no school, and getting around becomes a big problem. “Can I pray for […]