To give you away.
Relief?
Grief?
When you found her name!
Connected?
Rejected?
Waiting for the test.
Scared?
Prepared...
Written in As, Ts, Gs, and Cs.
Biology...
Genealogy...
To meet us.
Geographical...
Chronological...
High school - long hair - perm |
Senior Pic - Pretty sure this was my first of many big hair chop-off.s |
I suddenly turned into Meg Ryan! Yes!!! |
First short haired perm - I loved it! |
2008 - Somewhere in the middle of being engaged for a looooong time. |
2011 First significantly short haircut with baby Lindy |
2015 Most Recent big chop-off... Before... |
After |
2018 Just now! |
This is what our TV screens looked like at school all day. |
"If you've never been frog kissin', then you don't know what you've been missin'!" |
She's been having a rough week with recess at school for some reason... so we did a Mommy/Daughter date to the pool... clearly her choice, not mine! |
The beet that ate the shirt that matches Calvin's shorts... No, no... I never did have a shirt that matched those shorts. |
Calvin has an uncanny ability to help with canning. |
Jane's new favorite way to stroll. |
"Is this corn hand-shucked?" |
"Glasses... I cool!" |
I realize that there are a bunch of flaws in this plan, but why oh why can't babies just come with all their teeth? In utero they don't have stuffy noses that turn quickly into croup... And they can't cry, "Mouth! Owie!" Or "Owie teeth!" (Yes she's that specific in her vocab!) Jane seems to be particularly sensitive to teething pain and I swear it lasts for at least a few weeks for each tooth (they rarely come in pairs at the same time). So tonight's journal entry comes from Jane's bedroom where I'm rocking her more upright so that she can drain that poor nose of hers.
Lindy and Calvin have different growing pains... They are learning about how things change as you get older. More is expected... More is required... But they haven't quite connected those expectations to the greater privileges that go along with them. Lindy spent the day "working" at Grandma Reesa's today, "helping" after Papa Phil's recent back surgery. Mostly it was to give us a little break from each other (these first weeks back at school have been rough!). And also to show her that family members have chores and work to do to keep a house functioning - she's not the only one in the world being asked to make her bed in the morning - and I'm not the only person who requires these things of her kids!
Calvin is learning that different families have different rules and that can be tricky to figure out sometimes! He's also slowly learning that we can't go back in time to fix everything just the way he wanted it... We can try do overs, redos, and begin again, but I haven't figured out how to actually go back in time despite all his melting down. Life is hard, Bud!
Brett and I are trying to learn some new skills which has some amount of growing pain as well. I'm trying my hand at renovating our laundry room (building shelves, a counter, some cabinets)... It takes me forever to do simple things like draw a level line around the room! We're also trying to learn how to program in Java... We're going to make some pretty awesome stuff someday! Add to that our canning, yard stuff, regular work, kids, and so forth and we're learning a similar lesson to Calvin... Not only can we not go back in time, we can't add more time to the day...
Well, cross your fingers that I can lay Jane down now and that she'll actually sleep longer than an hour at a time tonight!
Peaches for frozen fruit and jars, grating zucchini for muffins, and pickled banana peppers |
About 13 cups of Blackberry Jelly |