Task-oriented Alex and Emily applied themselves to filling their buckets to the brim. Easy-going Fritz preferred to eat that which he picked. And Undiscriminating Jane picked berries off the bushes and the ground, ate them whether green or blue and had a very muddy mouth when we were finished.
On Sunday, as I was helping Emily get dressed, Jane found some shorts and draped them over her shoulders. She dressed herself for church. At the impressionable age of one, she must have seen a sari somewhere and tried to the duplicate the effect. She is a girl after her mama's heart.
In the last two weeks I have read five books and painted my dining room twice. Here is the latest color. Perhaps I shouldn't admit it, but since moving in, this room has changed colors five times.
And a funny unrelated note: History has a way of repeating itself. When someone near and dear me was little, he saw a toilet on display in a store and proceeded to use it. Well, a few days ago when we were in the hardware store, Emily saw a toilet in the plumbing aisle and adjusted her outfit to climb up on the seat. I turned around just in time to see her obvious intentions.
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Your dining room is beautiful! Only you would find the "time" to paint it 5 times! :) You always were a focused one...must be where Alex and Emily get it! Your home could grace the cover of any decorating magazine. You can do more with a little than anyone I know.
Oh, and I loved your comment...I had not thought about that in a long time. You were the first ones, aside from grandparents, who we had ever left Donovan with! I remember getting to your house with Olivia and waking him up to meet her. What sweet memories, and what a blessing that we got to share that with you!
honestly, i don't know how you do it. you must have a twin sister hiding in a closet somewhere.
it is so humid this week. i work up a sweat just getting the three into the car to go to the grocery store. enjoy your nice weather!
i met the new family that lives in your old house. i can't remember their last name, but they are a sweet christian japanese couple with two kids - a girl age 1 and a boy age 4 (i had the boy in my vbs class). the mom goes to pray and play too and i think she's going to join resiterns. getting plugged in right away! the hubby is doing a fellowship at shriners. they are from boston. anyway, they are opc, (orthodox presbyterian) which is a very small denomination. jessie's family is opc. anyway, i thought it was a cool coincidence that connected two of my dearest friends.
Wow, you are woman...hear you roar! The story of the toilet is hilarious!!!
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