This morning we woke up to a little bit of snow. The red apples still hanging on the tree out back looked like Christmas ornaments. We made pumpkin pancakes for breakfast, and immediately afterwards the kids ran out to shovel the front walk and sweep off the car windows. Without being asked. I’ve got beef [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Family’
October 10, 2009
Be It Ever So Humble…
…We’ve Finally Got a Home.
I’ve been feeling a bit too overwhelmed to create blog posts lately and have just been updating Facebook. Then I realized that not all of the people who read this blog are also on Facebook, so to update you:
We bought a house. It’s more or less right across the street from [...]
September 23, 2009
Genealogy Mysteries
I’ve been doing family genealogy research for a few years now, though since the kids came it’s been only at odd moments here and there. Last night I came across this little gem while researching part of my husband’s family:
CHARLES ROYAL WOODS [Jr.]
Born at Cambridge, Mass., May 27, 1878.
Prepared at St. Mark’s School, Southboro, Mass.
In [...]
August 19, 2009
Pre-hiatus Update
Dear Bloggy Friends,
I must pause. Not to reflect, but to get everything else done.
We plan to close on our house on Sept. 8. Of course this has meant numerous phone calls, meetings, and appointments. We’ve got a lot of financial wrangling yet to do — buying appliances, applying for our government’s wonderful offer of $8,000, [...]
July 26, 2009
Trial by Water
Today was rather momentous. At one point this afternoon I realized that the entire day was like an initiation of some kind or another.
Rudolf Steiner wrote quite a bit about initiatory experiences, religious, meditative, and quotidian. The quotes I have given here are from his book, How to Know Higher Worlds: A Modern Path of [...]
July 14, 2009
Vacation; or, We Attack the Pacific Northwest
N.B.: I’m stealing the format of this post from Tammy, because it’s a great way to do this quickly given that we took about 4,000 pictures.
We drove from Pocatello to Port Townsend, WA (1,700 miles) to visit Grammy and Grandpa for 2 weeks (the kids staying an extra third week). We hadn’t been to Washington [...]
June 25, 2009
Happenings
Life seems very busy right now. I feel like I have no time or energy to blog much. But I do want to….
To perhaps get myself back into the swing (though we are about to go on another vacation, so we’ll see if I get to blog anything for the next week or so), I [...]
June 16, 2009
Where I Am
Last week Anthropapa, SillyBilly, and I all got influenza. Honest-to-God, doctor-tested influenza. I don’t know the flavor, whether A, B, swine, or other. Napoleona, as usual, is the healthiest of us all.
I do know that it has been very unpleasant and inconvenient. Anthropapa spent the week sleeping when he wasn’t coughing or shaking. I got [...]
June 5, 2009
Southern California, May 2009
The kids and I took our annual pilgrimage to see grandparents at the end of May. Then this year the trip came hard on the heels of SillyBilly’s kindergarten graduation, and Anthropapa did not come with us (saving his vacation time for an even bigger trip we’re taking in a few weeks, out to Seattle [...]
