Sick Day

We had to take a sick day today, since the two boys I work with were both feeling too bad to concentrate on school.  Isaiah seems over being actively sick, but is still recovering from the effects of not having eaten or drank anything yesterday.  David went to bed last night feeling fine, but knocked [...]

Illness Update

I was hoping not to have to update on this topic again for a good long while, but things have not gone as I had hoped.  After two days with everyone well, three more children have succumbed to the illness, all within hours of each other.  These are the younger ones, who apparently don’t have [...]

Baptized

Faustina was baptized on January 10, the Feast of the Baptism of Our Lord.  Now she is not just created in the image of God, but an adopted child of God! As always, I felt more relaxed once the baptism was over.  I could sleep better at night now.  Driving home afterwards, I also felt [...]

Keeping Resolutions

Most years as we got to the end of December I have thought about and made some New Year’s resolutions, but this year it didn’t really happen.  I thought about it a little bit, but what with being on the verge of having a new baby in the house I felt like I couldn’t think [...]

Ten Years and Counting

We have been married for one decade now!  Our life in that time was not always what I would have guessed, but it has been very good.  And we’ve actually reached some of the goals that we had way back then:  teaching at a small college out in “the middle of nowhere”, and, along with [...]

Going back to college

After eight years since my last college class, I’ve gone back to college, this time as a freshman.  I’m taking Latin along with the freshmen here.  Even though I’ve already had two years of Latin in college, and some of the other students had had a year or two of Latin in high school, the [...]

My birthday present

New shelves for the pantry! These were put in on my birthday, and have been a great convenience, adding both extra shelves to the kitchen, and extra counter space.  We were even fortunate enough to have an old friend who happens to be an electrician visiting us on that day, and he installed a light [...]

What we’ve been up to

Since our visitors left on Tuesday, we’ve been planning school for this fall (yes, still planning, even though we’ll be starting in just over a week!), picking cherries, making cherry jam, peach jam, peach wine, and pear butter.  And last of all, we’ve been getting sick.  Yes, again.  For the third time this summer!  So [...]

Wyoming Plague?

So, most of us are sick–again.  Four weeks after the last time.  This seems really strange, after we spent two years in Florida, and never got sick there.  Well, I think the kids had a mild cold once.  We never had a big family illness.  Now we’ve gotten hit hard twice in the first month [...]

Headlines of the day

Stocking Up For Winter: Based on the size of the trailer J. used to haul it, it looks like about half a cord of wood. Discovery of the Day: These are a few bushes in our backyard with berries that have been getting ripe over the last few weeks.  The kids have been begging to [...]