Every year the kids make a star on Christmas day, and then we spend the days leading up to king’s day reading prophecies from the old testament that would have been available to the wise men and searching for the star. We take turns hiding it around the house, and then the kids search for […]

Christmas morning the kids were raring to go, so we got ourselves downstairs as soon as we could. I put cinnamon rolls in the (working!) oven, and we let the kids loose on the stockings. They were thrilled, and skipped breakfast in favor of all of the goodies in their stockings. The bubble tape was

We started out Christmas Eve by baking up a storm. We were hoping to get our “new” range today from our friends, but it hadn’t been confirmed yet when I got up, so I figured it would be best to just go ahead and get everything done first thing. We made peanut butter bars, Bailey’s

Wednesday morning we started out with the kids watching their shows and having cereal. We relaxed and read and enjoyed a quiet morning where we (Lover) didn’t have to get right up. 🙂 Then we did a video call with Lover’s parents and talked about Christmas plans and such. After that, we took care of

Tuesday morning Lover and I sat down and made a plan for food for the next few days. We’re not sure when/if we can get the stove fixed, so we need things that don’t require burners! Our meals include oven stuff, using the pressure cooker and using the slow cooker. I still need to make

We’ve been wanting to get out of town lately, but between the weather, COVID and pregnancy, it’s been a bit of a challenge to come up with something that would work. But Monday morning I came up with a plan, packed up a picnic lunch, and got us all loaded up and ready to go.

Our church didn’t have anything for the kids again on Sunday morning, so we headed back down to the new church plant that we visited a couple of weeks ago. The kids were really excited to attend again, and we were looking forward to it too! It was a special Christmas service so that felt

Today was an unusual day; we had TWO events going on. In one day! AND, we have two events tomorrow! What even is our life? 🙂 We got up and got moving, as the kiddos had all been invited to one of Javi’s friends’ birthday party. We got there, and several other of our friends

Friday I got a little more writing in, but we also focused on getting a lot of baking and cooking done! We made lots of batches of bread to give to our friends for Christmas. Javi helped me peel up a BUNCH of apples, and we got them cooking down in the pot to make

Thursday morning the kids polished off the last of the apple crisp we made on Monday from our apple haul. :P) Cassandra slept in, she was extra tired and I was glad she got some additional sleep. I hung out with the kids, cleaned the kitchen a bit, and then headed up to write for