Happy birthday, my dearest Elle Mae. I am so excited to see where God leads you. And at the same time, I wish you could stay this tiny forever. I don’t remember ever being this excited about giving a present to one of my children. You are such a sweetheart. You’ve been admiring your “favorite [...]

Although my snatches of time to read are rather hurried, I just finished A Thomas Jefferson Education (which I loved) and am a few chapters into How Lincoln Learned To Read (which I am loving). Highly recommended.

For Thanksgiving dinner we bundled up and headed to Aunt Sue’s house. The whole Thanksgiving week we were blessed to be able to visit with Uncle Nelson and Aunt Gwen. Nelson is Steve’s Mom’s brother, and they traveled down from Cape Breton, Nova Scotia to visit (which made me miss beautiful Cape Breton more than I [...]