Monthly Archives: March 2007

We’ve been going through a book called Sacred Parenting: How Raising Children Shapes Our Souls by Gary L. Thomas at the mother’s small group that I go to on Wednesday mornings at our church.  This morning’s chapter was a very thought provoking one; touching on the importance of truly enjoying and embracing these years when our children are small.  Which made me think about this blog.

Dave jokes that he wants to get me the t-shirt that says, “I’m Blogging This” (they do actually exist!), a phrase, I suppose, that sort of pokes fun at the quirkiness of a bloggers brain.  And I do believe that we bloggers – well, I won’t point fingers – that I as a blogger, take life in differently.  Since starting this blog (almost a whole year ago now!), I feel that the ability to simply see those small-otherwise-forgotten-moments has been cultivated in me.  It’s really helped me to embrace this very hectic (but wonderful!) time in my life!

So…here’s to the past year of blogging…and hopefully many, many more!

Daddy came home a little early this afternoon to help build a snowfort in our abundance of snow.  It was quite an elaborate structure, with a big cave, steps on the outside wall of it, and this photo is of the luge-like tunnel that slides down into the cave.

Well, for the first time in many years, school has been canceled here in Bloomington, MN! Snow came down steadily all day yesterday, and then well into the evening and night, adding about 14 inches to the foot that was already there.  Here are a few photos of our view…

On the left: Rich Lang, our trusty snow removal guy, out bright and early clearing off our sidewalks. The right: Our patio. (No, we don’t have evergreens growing on our patio, those are Christmas trees.)

Left: Zeke’s bike. Upside down because they were pretending it was some sort of “contraption” that did something or other. What little boy doesn’t love spinning a bicycle wheel over and over again? Right: Our neighbor’s van. I’m glad we have a garage. (only staff get a garage…there aren’t enough for all the students to have one)

Elijah and Zeke were wild with excitment to get outside. I had to make them slow down and have some breakfast. They’re outside right now digging tunnels, building snowmen, and probably hydrating themselves with handfulls of snow.