November 2018

weekend at home

 It was the first weekend at home–no more trips to the lake until next year.   This girl slept over, hasn’t had her usual number of sleepovers this fall–she’s bigger now and has activities and a social life of her own. But it was fun. Dan called and these guys came for supper.   When she heard

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this quiet week

 It’s been a long, quiet week, lots of work, nothing very exciting. Except this!  Our little peanut has passed the eight pound mark!  She’s six weeks old and growing.  Yesterday she smiled when I was talking to her.  I’m not sure if it was a real smile or just a coincidence, but I’ll take it.

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end of the season

 We closed up the cabin this weekend.   We were thinking of giving it one more week, and then it snowed. Nope. All done. He did the leaf blower and lawn mower and cleaned up the whole entire yard. Put every last thing away, disconnected the water softener and brought that back home to store here

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halloween, 2018

 Tonight I had to work, and these guys live across town–they trick or treat in their own neighborhood where participation is high. So I wasn’t there and neither were they, but that’s fine.  It’s perfect. Some others went trick or treating at my parents.  We started going there a few years ago because participation in

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