On Thanksgiving day 30 family members gathered at my sister’s house. If my sister Barb and family had joined us there would have been 35 of us together. One thing that really stuck out to me this year is how amazingly comfortable we are at showing affection to one another. It was just so cool … Read More

Thanksgiving, 2007 Our Thanksgiving table….where 3 generations and three countries were represented at dinner!Foreground: my mom, Nate, Bailey (my niece) Background: (L) Dirk, my brother-in-law and (R) Tom, my mom’s husbandMakes you wonder what’s so funny doesn’t it? I’ll give you a clue, someone grabbed a hiney! Kirk with my the husbands of my cousins … Read More

By Friday dinner, we were all sick of Turkey and leftovers, so we did what any sensible person living and visiting the Chicago area would do…we went out for pizza….not just any pizza, of course. We went to Lou Malnati’s for some yummy deep dish Chicago Style pizza. While we were waiting for a table … Read More

Did someone say dessert? Yeah, at Lou’s they serve a mean DEEP DISH Chocolate Chip cookie with ice cream, chocolate sauce and whip cream. In a flash….it was gone…. Do they look full? Or ready for another one?

One of our hens FINALLY laid an egg!Yeah, you all are probably thinking something like, “what the heck, she hasn’t blogged in a month (or more?) and all we get is an egg?” It’s just that I’ve been so busy…and to be real…because it’s been so long, I just didn’t know where to start! Maybe … Read More

Around the house … The view from the corner of our home out to the road The flowering crab apple tree Gabby on squirrell patrol looking across the yard to our neighbor’s home

just took this photo… and needed to add it! Our boy, and our dog.

Weekend blogging again! Guess that proves that my weekdays aren’t as thrilling as my weekends. Friday night Kirk and I went back to the HS our kids graduated from for the homecoming game. Danae’s college fall break was this past weekend so she was “home” (as much as a college student with friends to visit … Read More

It’s been a wild & crazy & fun weekend! Cara arrived from Cincinnati around 2pm on Friday. By 4pm Kirk, Cara and I were on the road to the Cities for a wedding (Cara’s friend). Kirk had spent the day in Rushford (flooded town) volunteering doing flood clean up, so he got home by 3:15, … Read More

I took advantage of having all the kids home this weekend and got some pics. Yes, they are in the chicken pen!