I’m so excited to participate in another reading challenge. Katrina at Callapider Days is hosting a Fall Reading Challenge! One of the best parts of participating in such a challenge is getting to put this REALLY KEWL graphic in my sidebar! Doesn’t looking at it make you want to just …

I knew this day would eventually come. I just didn’t think it would come this soon. I mean really.. it’s *ONLY* been EIGHTEEN YEARS! That’s just NOT long enough, imo. There are so many things we haven’t taken the time to do yet. I almost said we haven’t had time …

After we had everything loaded up there were some last goodbyes before driving out of the yard. The boys stayed home to help Grandpa so this was it for them. She’s only moving 30 miles away. We’ll get to see her often (we hope anyway). I can’t imagine how difficult …

Tim, Amanda, and I were all “on” for worship this past weekend. The last year or two Amanda has occasionally filled in for me on keyboard, but she wasn’t added to the weekend worship team schedule until after she graduated from high school. I’m not sure about the timing of …

Leaving Amanda at her new house is *THE* single most difficult thing we’ve ever done in our lives so far. We, Tim & I, both agree that the season of ADDING children to our home was much more enjoyable than this new season of them starting to leave our comfy …

For those who don’t already know this our oldest daughter, Amanda, moved out today. I’ll blog more about that later when I can see straight again… it’s hard to type when your eyes keep filling up to the point where you can’t see and your nose keeps dripping onto your …

We woke up to frost this morning. I’m not certain how cold it was last night, but it was only 32 when I looked at the thermometer after I had been up a couple of hours. Above is the view from our kitchen widow this morning. Notice the light color …

Can you believe we’re actually at the point of having noticeable progress in several areas? WHOO HOO! We finished up everything around the window and toilet area this weekend! Here is a view from standing back at the far end of the bathroom. Here is a closeup of the tiebacks! …

Kid Quote: “If you buy me a Bug Juice. I will stop bugging you for a YEAR! – Nathan Ok. That’s a DEAL, but I’m not holding my breath on Nathan holding up his end of the deal though! A year is a LONG time and I’m sure he’ll do …

My fellow homeschooling friends will already know that I really don’t like to check books out from the library. I have a long list of reasons why I don’t like to read library books, but I’ll spare you the list and only mention one here. It sort of like our …