All Things Home and Family
We have storm warnings for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day from Nebraska to Northern Minnesota. This blizzard is forecast to happen directly over the route a couple of our children are to take to come home the day after Christmas. Will we really be snowed in? How many people will stay safely at home and… Continue reading A Christmas Storm?
Our annual Christmas cookie baking day was this week.* Double Chocolate Cookies (white chocolate chips)* Spritz (Frances kept playing with the flavors and colors thereof, and Charlotte decorated the trees)* Cream Jelly Crescents (One of Charlotte's experiments...they look really neat.)* Gingerbread Cookies (wonderful flavor and texture)* Sour Cream Sugar Cookies (Kay's recipe...very good)* Linzer (… Continue reading Cookies
Things I am thankful for this Christmas:* A Poinsettia On My Table My aunt Eva used to bring me one every year. She has been gone for over 15 years and I still think of it and miss her. This year I bought one and I am cheered just as much as if Eva had… Continue reading Blessings
I quite agree with this essay on the subject of Christmas.
My sister commented on my last post: I like the Christmas story about the guy who stepped on a pin and broke it and couldn't find the other end of it....he thought he was going to die....his wife found the other end but never told him because he was doing a wonderful job turning his… Continue reading Another Christmas Story
We read them every Christmas. There are whole collections of quaint and pithy tales of woe turned to joy just in time for Christmas. These stories warm the soul just as surely as the fire in the living room fireplace warms the toes.Charles Dickens wrote his famous Christmas Carol just before Yuletide one year to… Continue reading Cozy Christmas Fireside Stories
Elv's family is going to be here for Thanksgiving dinner on Saturday after the Day. If they all come there will about 29 people here. We plan to seat all of us around the table using china and goblets. For those of you worried about having to do dishes half the afternoon; we've got that… Continue reading Thanksgiving and Christmas
This picture is a tentative admission on my part that life is going on... That this family has adjusted to our new shape and size...we think. We like having fewer loads of laundry and more space for our earthly goods in our little old stone house. We like the smaller table.We didn't like the loss… Continue reading Life Goes On
We spent Monday working the apples into cider with this press. It was steady but enjoyable work washing, cutting, and pressing out the cider. We are looking forward to many winter evenings of games and cider by the fire. Cider and fudge. Cider and doughnuts. Come join us.
We picked apples today for cider. My friend and I took our children and gathered 30 plus bushels of them. Will that make a lot of cider? This was the first time of picking apples for some of our children so they considered this an adventure as opposed to work. Since there has been frost… Continue reading
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