All Things Home and Family
What do ten people do all day in a small house when it is too cold to go outside for play or even work? No problem. We can sew, craft for decor for a future wedding, build things like children's step stools (I'll show you sometime), arrange flowers, play dough, design a new pattern with… Continue reading Cold Weather Industries
I found this as a draft. It belongs back there in July somewhere last summer. I'll post it here as a back flash. We are glad that it really was not quite this bad over all to be "empty nesters" for a few weeks. Just like that, it has hit again, a… Continue reading Saturday Evening Blues
Sometimes I post pictures like this strictly because I want them to be in the book I hope to print of this blog someday. Perhaps I ought to have two separate blogspots: one for the family memories and another for scribblings. It was the Christmas that:* It was cold. We had -25… Continue reading Christmas Past And Other Pieces of Our Lives
This December has been cold and wintry thus "Christmasy" all along. On Sunday evenings we stay by the fire and play games or just sit and visit.
Merry Christmas to one and all. This year we are not really writing a letter to send off...just a picture in a card. Our year went flying by, full of good things and hard things, as well, to be honest.But God has been so very good to us this year. We felt blessed in some… Continue reading 2013 Christmas Card
"Be Good!" I say to our children and their friends as they go out our door. I say it to the young people and the little children or anyone else who needs to hear it.Here's what I mean:Stay well in body but mostly in soul. Be good.Keep striving for the Lord. Don't give up.Go for… Continue reading Be Good
Happy December From Our House to Yours
That's what Elv said he wanted this year... a formal meal in the early afternoon.So: Clark bought the biggest turkey out there not unlike Bob Crachit's own, long ago described in the pages of A Christmas Carol by Dickens. He marinaded it in apple juice and other goodies, of which I have no clue, for… Continue reading Traditional Thanksgiving
How shall we best be thankful? Reading THIS post today inspired me to really want to make Thanksgiving and Christmas a special memory this year.And HERE is another great post on how to be thankful.How about a list of expectations:* Gatherings. In living rooms and around tables. Rows of shining faces along long tables laden with… Continue reading Thanksgiving Week
