Monthly Archives: October 2011

Autumn Festival

Claire & Violet making pumpkin ladies (I seriously thought about combing Violet’s hair, but the thought exhausted me) We had the annual Autumn Festival on Wednesday.  I started my chicken tortilla soup at 2 pm, but I am so slow at the moment that I didn’t finish it until 6pm.  I should have planned something...

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Wednesday morn

photo taken out the kitchen window this morning I love waking up to the windows glowing orange from the morning sunrise. A perfect day for our annual Windy Ridge Autumn Festival.  With only around 30 guests this year it will be a simple affair. Soup potluck and pumpkin carving. Today I am going through inventory...

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3 months

Taken with my iPhone this morning. Simon isn’t going to let anyone sneak up. Finally. I am 3 months pregnant, but it took forever. If you ever want to slow down time, get sick and pregnant. Now that I am entering the 2nd trimester I feel like I am on the downhill side of this....

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Crowned in snow

Jace took this photo out the living room window. The mountain emerges from the clouds adorned in snow. I am still here, plodding through this first trimester.  Spending my entire day sitting in a chair and nibbling tiny bits of Granny Smith apples.  I can see the disastrous kitchen from where I am sitting and...

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Happy & sad

  iPhone photo: taken the other evening of Sabra reading to the younger kids I will start with the sad because I like to end with happy.  I had this notion that once I got through Christopher’s memorial service last week that I would simply move on. Easier said than done.  I keep going back...

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The weekend

Saturday was a sad day. The day of Christopher’s memorial service. A day for weeping and wailing and wearing Carhartts. Sunday was better.  We brought the kids to town for lunch and then Anna and Mutti came to visit.  We all gathered around fresh crab and melted butter in the kitchen. Later we had pumkin...

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Christopher

I wish I wasn’t writing this post. I was walking around in the fabric store yesterday when I got a simple text from my mom. Did you hear about Chris V? My heart dropped. I looked at the corner of my phone screen and saw that I had missed a text from my 17 year...

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9 weeks

9 weeks pregnant today and I still have not puked. Not even once. I am shocked and amazed and happy.  It is true that I am on Zofran full time and spend my days trying not to puke, but I am trying really hard not to complain because it could be so much worse. 10-12...

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