One of my goals in the next few months is to get back on track with our Family International Night. Our family has been at a busy stage of life where I ‘m just happy to get something on the table at all, and an international meal every week was feeling overwhelming. So we took [...]
As another year draws to an end, I wanted to highlight some of my favorite moments of 2009. Here they are in chronological order (sort of):
January: We had a huge snow fall that kept the girls home from school for an entire week. . .we took advantage of the extra time at home and did [...]
Very often we are traveling right over Christmas Eve and Day, but this year it worked out for us to be home. I’m so thankful for the many happy moments we had this year. . .here are just a few:
We made monkey bread for breakfast. I love this stuff, but I think it’s going to [...]
I had no intention of waiting this long to update (sorry Aunt Linda), but, well, I have no excuse.
So, we’ve been busy, just like everyone else, but we’re also working really hard to keep life manageable and even fun during this season. Last night we threw a rather spontaneous gift-wrapping party. We called a bunch [...]
Today, in between loads of laundry, I decided to do a little baking. I’ve been wanting to make my grandma’s crumb cake recipe for a while so I decided that today is the day. And to make it taste extra special, I mixed it up in Grandma’s mixing bowls which were given to me after [...]
