Lux et umbra vicissum…

Swim lessons…
    
    
A (chicken) pox on Eli!

And this past week was VBS. I volunteered to work in the nursery, but due to there being plenty of workers in nursery and my almost-kindergartener throwing a fit, I ended up transferring to kindergarten. I learned something very valuable - large groups of small children don’t scare […]

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I haven’t felt much like blogging lately.  My grandmother took a turn for the worse a couple days ago and they were sure she wasn’t going to make it.  She rallied a bit, though, and is still hanging on.  I’m just trying not to get my hopes up too high.  The whole thing is incredibly […]

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She went in after a routine biopsy gone awry.  They were biopsying a lump on her breast - an outpatient procedure, normally - and somehow they nicked an artery.  They didn’t know she was bleeding at first, but her blood pressure dropped, she started struggling to breathe, then she went into shock and her heart […]

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Thought I’d post a picture of Eli’s cake from Monday.  Joel’s been out of town for business for a couple of days since then, so my parents are helping me out.  Joel will be back tomorrow and I’ll be back onto a more normal schedule.  I’ll try to pick up typing up the journal entries […]

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A four year old’s idea of good dinner conversation:
“Mommy, why don’t dogs have snot or boogers?”
A four year old’s concept of fractions:
“Mommy, since there are three of us, why can’t you just split it in three halves?”
What the two year old says when she wants to imitate her sister on the piano:
“I’m gonna go do […]

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It’s Apple Blossom time!  It’s amazing what a big deal Apple Blossom Festival is here in Winchester.  The kids all have off from school tomorrow, there’s all kinds of activities, parades, carnivals, etc., and everything from the banks to the courthouse to the veterinary clinic will be closed!
Since Branwen has preschool on Tuesdays and Thursdays, […]

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I’ve hardly been online today because we wanted to take advantage of the sunny weather to get our garden ready. My mother will be coming at the end of next week with ten beef steak tomato plants (I think), two cherry tomato plants, and two bell peppers. I also got seeds for Bush […]

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Charis: (as she sits on the couch in our living room) Where is the whole world?
Me: Well, honey, it’s all around us.  It’s everything you can see as you look around.
Charis: (later)  The whole world is in our living room!!!
The following was a dinner discussion… since I can’t remember which child said each thing I’ll […]

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I got one of those cheap, big plastic bats for the girls to play with along with some of the cheap whiffle balls.  They’ve been having a blast!  The older ones are even learning good ways to throw the ball and hold the bat.  It’s fun to watch. :)  They’re learning to throw a frisbee, […]

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Some people mistakenly think that a child over a certain age can’t get croup.  Truth is, even adults can get croup; the biggest difference is that our airways are bigger so it doesn’t affect us as badly.  To adults and older children it comes on like a bad cold.
Alexis has pretty much reached that point, […]

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