[meant to post this LAST weekend, but …. ] As usual, my plans fell apart almost as soon as 2023 was underway. Students came back to school in pretty bad shape. For weeks they struggled to engage, their stamina for learning and effort was almost as limited as at the beginning of the year. AND […]
Category: celebrations
Winter Traditions in Our Family
Traditions…. many cultures have “winter solstice” or solstice-adjacent holidays. Our family draws on several different traditions this time of year, though most of them are less religious for us than cultural. Advent (yes, the root of the word adventure! see https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Advent for derivation) is a season of watchful waiting and preparation for Christians in many […]
Decades
I remember the first time I started really thinking in terms of DECADES. Our elder son was about ten. Off the cuff, I mentioned something that had happened about 15 years before. It was his first true realization that there had in fact been “life” before him… And it was my first recognition that I […]
Important Dates in our Lives
Today is the 21st anniversary of the day our older son became a big brother. He was so proud of his little brother! Here is a pic of the birthday boy and his big brother the day after he was born… When he was about 3 or 4, he LOVED that Snowman toy! When they […]
Letter to my home on the importance of children
[Draft One, 12 March 2015] Did you know that before you were here, another structure inhabited the land? In the first Act of this land’s existence, there was a deep, varied garden, filled with nut trees and timber trees, with berries, with vines and flowers, and with creatures that depended on them all. Then silence […]
Senior Prom
This is my boy, and his girl. Dapper and Elegant. What a cute couple they have made for nearly 4 years. So proud of these young adults!
Home
Home.
The rest of the story…
I have been remiss in my “mama” mode for quite some time. I reported my own finishing, but neglected to trumpet my elder’s significant events this month! Here is a pic of him at his girlfriend’s house before the senior prom… And here is a pic of him a few days later, with his brother, […]
Babblers Babbling…
Today, FOUR Babblers showed up in Olympia: Bugsaw, Jillibus, jmcnrick, and Pinikula. We had a great time, and plotted our work for tomorrow. I will have pictures of them up then… Right now, a link to the scarves they chose stidmama’s picasa album. More pics and a full report in the morning…
Family Pic
We had this family group photo done at an end-of-school promotion ceremony. I am so pleased to have a nice picture of us all — and me actually wearing nice clothes! I am so proud of my sons, some days I could just burst! The photographer works mostly in the Olympia area, and has a […]