Family News

Well, we’ve still got a long ways to go before we have as many movies as books, but we’ve still managed to accumulate a nice collection.
I spent part of the morning organizing them, and the girls were just all over me–hovering. I can’t decide if the word I’m looking for is unnerving or [...]

(Posted simultaneously at Untangling Tales.)
Can’t say I’m done, ’cause I’m not, but I did make the 50,000-word “finish line.”
Two nights ago, actually. And yesterday I spent much of the day cleaning house because we were having company for dinner, so I didn’t write anything before “validating” my 50,267-Word document this morning. (You are such a [...]

The girls cut their own hair Monday. So now they both have reallyreally short cuts.
This only leaves me with any length in the house– Jay got his hair cut on Saturday. Very short. Jay thinks we might try putting a group pix here on the blog until he gets the next album [...]

Jay and the girls watched the Ski-doo promotional video 6 or 10 times last night.
It has all the adrenaline images of (forgive me, I don’t know the “official” terms) swishing around and jumps and stuff. There are a couple great over-the-mountain shots, coming up behind the dismounted drivers (by their machines) and swinging over [...]

He was so excited, and took the day off to get stuff ready, and is now on his way to drive it for the first time out by Derek’s place.
I’m thankful the temp’s closer to zero. It was -20 earlier this week, but only -2 last I checked. We had all four brothers [...]

At our church we have a potluck the first Sunday of each month.
Elisha will be six months old this week, and for the first time since before he was born I brought something substantial and homemade. (I was very proud of myself).
Natasha asked that morning (yesterday) what I was making food for.
“For the potluck,” [...]