Sunday morning we got right up and ready for church. We wanted to try out another church this week – we’ve been trying to visit new churches on the weeks we have Life Group. This way the kids and us still get to spend time with our friends, and have that stability, but Lover and […]

Saturday we lazed around a bit in the morning. I got a terrible night’s sleep, so after rallying and coming down for breakfast, I ended up going back upstairs and to bed for a couple of hours. Lover made sure things didn’t implode while I was gone. The kids cleaned up their messes so we

Today was a busy day! We had a rescheduled video call with Lover’s parents, and in the morning I worked on getting the rest of the Christmas books wrapped up and the birthday package all prepped to mail back to NY. Lover’s parents’ birthdays are both next week, so we packed a box and got

Today we worked hard on getting the house in order. We started out the day with the kids eating the banana blueberry muffins I made last night, and they scarfed them down. I barely rescued the ones I was bringing to my friends house! The rest disappeared in a cloud of crumbs. Then the kids

Wednesday morning we cleaned up the house and worked on little Christmas preparations. I’ve been trying to get a package together for Lover’s parents since their birthdays are next week. I also had an in home appointment with my midwife to check on baby’s progress. Everything is good and she’s very healthy! The kids decorated

Lover got a really bad night’s sleep last night (which meant that I got a fairly poor night’s sleep too) so today was just about survival. 🙂 We had the kids do their stuff, I took an early nap, we did a little school with everyone, and just generally kept things easy and simple and

We hosted church in the morning since there were no classes for the kids again. It’s nice having a group of people all come together to hang out and share in watching church together on these Sundays! After everyone left, Javi got started on his surprise cake – he scooped out the inside of one

After all the preparations for Thanksgiving, we were overdue for a lazy day just hanging out and doing nothing. 🙂 Usually I write on Fridays, but all I could muster up the energy for was searching for a new book cover artist, and working through the proofreading edits for Intruder. I finished those, so now

Last year was the first year that we stayed in Colorado for Thanksgiving and then didn’t have anyone over – we had a nice time, but we were so thankful this year to have friends join us for the day! It was Erin’s birthday, so we invited them so they wouldn’t have to cook, and

I made blueberry cobbler in the morning to add to our repertoire of desserts for Turkey Day. We also did chores and school, and a bit more cleaning, and then after lunch we headed to IKEA. We realized we needed a few more plates and bowls to make hosting easier – we got rid of