Monthly Archive: December 2009

Boys in their Australian Tee Shirts 2

Shirts! (and soap and hats too!)

Each Christmas a package arrives from Australia. John, every year, seems to select the nicest gifts. For the two boys, he sent adorable t-shirts from The Perth Zoo where he is a docent. It seemed right to give Cameron the tiger t-shirt, as when John and I took him to...

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Christmas Day 2009 Highlights

Laura started Christmas Day, relaxing in the chair and a half with Jasper and a book. The 22 pound turkey looked beautiful. Lots of presents around the tree of course. All part of mom’s glory, the dinner table… The kids wait patiently to open presents. Linda and George, as they...

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Christmas Eve 2009 Highlights

This Christmas Eve was special with Enric, Miranda, and Silas here with us. Jenny, back from school, was here too! The evening was sweet starting with our Christmas Eve service at church, and my guess is, that is when the hilarity got its start. Silas didn’t go into the nursery...

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The Boys in the Snow

Wednesday again, and this time, since we got nearly two feet of snow, it was a chance to take Cameron and Silas out to play in the snow. Cameron throws some snow. Silas gets to throw one too. Miranda tries to make it snow again. Laura making a snow angel....

Silas Discovers the Christmas Village 1

Silas Discovers the Christmas Village

Each year mom sets up a Christmas Village. While I was growing up it was under the tree, these past years, she has set it up on the piano. With Silas in the house, I wondered how long it would be before he would discover the wonders of make believe...

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Blizzard 2009: Next Day

The day after the storm nearly breaks all December records, the sun came out and it was time to dig out. Glen Burnie received 22.5 inches, it’s safe I think to say that Pasadena got close to that. This is our back deck. Enric and Miranda set out to clean...

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Blizzard 2009

I don’t think that our weatherman could have predicted this. They started off saying a chance of snow with some accumulation. Then they began talking inches, and pretty soon, some time later, they were talking FEET! Today, it was a BLIZZARD! Enric decided fairly early to get started on cleaning...

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Christmas Cookies 2009

This time I missed Jenny, Petra, and Leoni, but this year we had Miranda with us to decorate our Christmas cookies!

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Deep and Wide

Ever sang Deep and Wide in Sunday School? It was also a favorite of mine at Vacation Bible School with Rev. South. I’ve been teaching Silas some new songs. One was “This Little Light of Mine” and the one on this video, “Deep and Wide.”  This was soon after they...

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Wednesdays With the Boys

This Wednesday, Miranda thought it a good idea for the boys to do painting, Laura agreed, and indeed it was. They had a great time. The first bit of fun was putting Enric’s old shirts on inside out to protect their clothes. They ran around the house just enjoying the...

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Shopping With Silas

A trip to the mall with my children is usually a triangle stop of just a few stores. Going with Silas means a different set of stops. Like the rides! I am also appreciating the camera in my Samsung Impression phone!

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It Was My Dad’s

Mom handed Cameron one day a car to play with. I wondered where it came from, as it was obviously old. She told me it was my dad’s. Since it was my dad’s, the very moment Cameron wasn’t interested in playing with it, I put it on my shelf, and...

ilas is now living here and weekly has a buddy to play with as Laura babysits Cameron. 0

Wednesdays

Wednesdays at our house these days, means the pitter patter of little feet. Silas is now living here and weekly has a buddy to play with as Laura babysits Cameron. The two boys are getting along great. Silas here reads a book while Cameron focused on the beach ball. Silas...

So we had our first snow, and it sleeted and iced up too 0

This Morning

I got out early today to take Miquel to work. As I sat in the car, this was my view! So we had our first snow, and it sleeted and iced up too. It didn’t stop Laura’s hopes for a White Christmas.

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Distraction

Silas showed us how short a child’s attention span can be today. He saw his daddy pull into the driveway, got all excited about greeting him, nearly hurt himself in his anxiousness to meet him at the doorway, goes running to greet him, Enric puts his bottled water down on...

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Silas!

Yesterday was Silas and Miranda’s first full day here. They got here late Tuesday night. Silas spent his first day with a buddy, as it was Laura’s babysitting day with Cameron. He has renamed the cats Dante and Jasper to Danti and Basher. Silas is a joy to have around...

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Carbon Gravy Train

From the Australian: …thanks to what now goes by the name of climategate, it turns out the real scandal lies elsewhere. Climategate concerns some of the world’s leading climate scientists working in tandem to block Freedom of Information requests, blackball dissenting scientists, manipulate the peer-review process, and obscure, destroy or...