Tuesday March 15, 2011

 

My Week

So Far

March 13, 14, & 15

 

Our unusual week began on Saturday when Jere and Kristen brought their boys (Jesse, Ian, and Jared) to stay with us for seven days while they go to New Orleans on a business trip. Jeff & Chris’ youngest girls (Gloria and Diana) love to play with them, so we invited them to come home with us after church on Sunday.

Josh is also here, and spent most of Sunday with “the guys” – two cousins and several friends. 

 

After taking the girls home on Sunday night, I visited the barn to see the sheep, goats, and especially the babies.

 

Cassie would have liked if I spent more time with her. She is growing up and acquiring big feet and a deep, loud bay.

 

 

I don’t remember seeing this small statue in Chris’ flower bed before. I like it. She is so creative with the placement of things like this.

 

 

Things are different at our house this week. There are lunch boxes and sip cups…

 

 

children’s cereal…

 

 

small shirts and jeans…

 

 

…and toys on the living room floor.

 

 

There are small hands and feet…

 

 

 

and I’m reading Dr. Seuss.

 

 

 

Jesse fixing his bed (sleeping bag on an air mattress) this morning.

 

 

Jared and Ian are ready for school.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some of my readers are asking about the long bar in front of the bus. This moves front when the bus stops so the children have to walk at a distance from the front of the bus. If they are too close to the bus the driver cannot see them. This came into being a few years ago after several children got hit by the bus.

 

 

Josh had a more relaxing morning because he doesn’t have to leave quite as early.

 

 

He even had a bit of time to watch the Jetsons with Jesse.

 

 

Cerwin had to remove ice from the truck window this morning before leaving for the TFC shop.

 

 

Josh’s friend Troy came to take him to school.

 

 

 

 

Then I had time to enjoy a cup of coffee as the sun came up in the east.

 

 

Jesse played with toys and GameCube, and later a few Fisher Price preschool games on my old office computer, while I prepared a chaplain’s newsletter for bulk mailing. After taking it to the post office, I prepared the labels for tomorrow’s Highway News mailing.

 

 

Just before 3:30 in the afternoon Jared and Ian came home from school.

 

 

It looks like they have not yet run out of energy.

 

 

 

 

 

I was delighted to notice the first blooms in our yard this spring.

These crocus were a gift from my mother thirty-seven-and-a-half years ago. She gave the bulbs to us for our tenth wedding anniversary. I can still remember her saying, “This isn’t a very pretty gift, but they come with a promise of beauty each spring.”

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Tomorrow it will be thirty-seven years since she died at the age of fifty-two from cancer.

My mother on her wedding day, and at the age of 53 – about a half a year before she died.

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