I just returned from a lovely walk with Bella on a perfect foggy Thanksgiving morning with red and yellow leaves still proclaiming the final days of autumn. She insisted on walking all the way to the elementary school by herself while I followed...
I think it’s finally safe to say that Bella is fully weaned. And here at the end it wasn’t nearly the traumatic process I thought it would be. It seems like she was ready and it just kind of happened. Now when it’s time for nap or...
Ah, the first snowfall of the season! It started while we were at the grocery store this morning. We could have held out till tomorrow but I didn’t want to fight the crowds. Even today I noticed more people than I’m used to seeing at...
…and Regina Doman’s other fairy tale novels…. Speaking of Regina Doman, author of Angel in the Waters, I received a lovely email from her last week thanking me for my previous review of the most recent of her young-adult novels...
We just received the lovely picture book Angel in the Waters by Regina Doman and it’s quickly become a favorite with Bella. I love it too, though I’m having a hard time getting through it without bawling. Partly the pregnancy hormones...
Bella is currently engaged in giving her dolly drinks from her sippy cup. It is so cute! I didn’t show her how to do that. She’s started saying “gosh”. Yeah, I guess I do that. We got a blueberry pie at church this morning...
Poor Dom is sick. One of the great things about his making big batches of chicken stock, though, is that I can make him home-made chicken noodle soup in less than half an hour. I chopped up a little onion, carrot and celery and sauted in a little...
Bella and I came back from our walk this morning to find Dom had cleaned the microwave and was in the midst of cleaning out the refrigerator. He’d located the source of the really foul odor: bad cheese. What a wonderful husband! Of course, he...
Bella was in heaven tonight. This afternoon we went to watch my nephew Peter play in his final football game of his freshman year. Afterward we joined the extended family for pizza and Chinese food. Lots of cousins, aunts and uncles and grandma...
O that I had wings like a dove to fly away and be at rest. So I would escape far away and take refuge in the desert. I would hasten to find shelter from the raging wind, from the destructive storm, O Lord… The major downside to spurts of...
