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Halloween just gets more fun each year! Samantha had so much fun painting pumpkins, dressing up and ringing doorbells. I had to prompt her with the “Trick or Treat” and “Thank You.” (Am I the only one who doesn’t like answering the doorbell and getting a bucket shoved in my face without even a “Trick or Treat?”) She …
Read more →We went to the doctor today for Sam’s 3 year checkup. She has been fighting a cold, so I was glad our checkup was now instead of 2 weeks ago. Turns out, she does have an ear infection. The right ear’s tube fell out long ago, but we were holding on to the left one. However, at this point, it is no longer in her eardrum, …
Read more →Wow, what a party! Thanks for coming! Sam loves pumpkins, so I made a pumpkin cake. She blew out the candles so fast that we barely got a picture! Here are just a few of the really great gifts. Her new favorite book from Uncle Mark and Aunt Martha, Small, Medium and Large. A soprano ukelele (or ukeladium as she says) …
Read more →We haven’t been doing a lot around here lately. We’re doing our best to get sick and stay sick. 🙁 Ellie is even fighting her first cold! She has a nasty sounding cough, so I hope it’s not croup. The rest of us (including Sam) don’t sound croupy, so I hope it’s just normal drainage. But, we are definitely a goop factory …
Read more →(And no, I don’t mean Steve Winwood.) Ellie started to roll over yesterday!
Read more →Samantha turned 3 years old today! She is such a big girl! Over the last year, her speech has exploded – both receptive and expressive. She is mostly potty-trained, although we do still have accidents. She is in a big bed with no side rails. She loves to read. She loves to be outside. She loves her little sister. (The …
Read more →We headed down to the Pumpkin Patch on Saturday. What a beautiful day! It got rather warm if you were in the sun, but that was remedied by a cold treat in the shade. Samantha wasn’t thrilled to go on a hayride, but you have to to get back to the big pumpkin fields. (We were towed by a big noisy tractor!) Ellie didn’t …
Read more →I’m starting to feel better about selling the S10. After church we went to Zoe’s for lunch with our friends Eric and Kris. On the way there, I’m sitting at the traffic light on Sulpher Springs Road waiting to turn left on Highway 150 when there goes my old S10. It still had my BAMA tag on the front and my old license …
Read more →On Wednesday, I sold my 2000 Chevy S10. When I first started driving it, there were less than 1000 miles on it. There are now nearly 125,000 miles on it. This truck has been with me in good times and in bad. It moved me to Chicago for a summer, in and out of dorms for two years, into our first apartment and house. …
Read more →Last weekend, we traveled to the Huntsville Burnses. (Happy 1st Birthday Penny!) It was almost cold and pretty windy, so we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves outside. Here’s a family picture. (And don’t mind my hair, as I said, it was windy.) Silly girl with windblown hair. Look out, Little Man! Don’t you know that you’re …
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