A year ago this week, Jonah was in the hospital to have 2 abscesses removed from his throat. After the procedure he had a small 16 hour stay in ICU. I am so thankful that all was well in the end as it was a scary ordeal, especially seeing him in the ICU. But God [...]

While in Belfast over Easter: Levi  (the youngest of the clan) Jacob and Ezra Micah and Luke Isaac Sarah At yet another park James, Charles and Janet Angry bird aprons from my friend Tracy! So that was our Easter. Lots of parks and lots of misty rain! Since coming back, April was still full of [...]

(those I’ve done are in italics)  Thanks to Caroline over at The Joyful Keeper for this post. A lot of this was done during my semester abroad here to England. So much happened in those 4 months back in 1999 =) And here it is nearly 13 years later and I have been living in [...]

Wednesday Andy and I (and the boys) went down to Bicester Village to meet up with a friend of mine from high school who was in the country for a few days! Tracy and I haven’t seen each other in over 12 years possibly closer to 15! She lives in Hong Kong with her husband [...]

So last Sunday (the 3rd of March) Andy and I were in the kitchen preparing Sunday dinner.  The boys were all upstairs playing…which could be anything from actually playing to wrecking havoc!)  But they all came giggling downstairs and shyly peeped into the kitchen to show off their new clothes! and not to leave out [...]

Like this recipe whose title sounds amazingly yummy, but the ingredients, uhh gross! But, I will never know unless I try eh? So here is the recipe and I’ll try to post the photo from this ladies website. Oh, ‘this’ lady, is called Katie. Chocolate Covered Katie to be exact =) I found this recipe [...]

Finally, after 13+ months of waiting, we finally had snow!  I wasn’t even expecting it, but it was sure enough welcome!!  So here are some photos!  Ezra slept through most of the actual snowing bit and then when he did wake, he wasn’t so sure! The next day? It was way to warm for the [...]

I read this today as I was eating my lunch and catching up on blogs. I really enjoyed it as I love alliteration and how it can help to remember things, but more importantly to remember scripture to store away in our hearts. I am borrowing this from my fellow HE mom, Caroline of The [...]

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Another Christmas down and while it’s been great to be with the family, we had many a sicknesses! First Micah and his croupy cough. Then Jonah got a fever with a cough where he slept most of Christmas day and Boxing day. He missed Christmas dinner the poor boy. Now its Ezra’s turn for being [...]