Some of you may have noticed I updated my photos on the side of my blog, well actually I have deleted one.
The picture of Andy, the dog. I am really happy to announce that Andy has been adopted!!! He has moved to Lakeville and is enjoying lots of older kids and a huge yard and people who are able to take him for long walks and play with him all the time and I am completely thrilled.
He is such a good boy and I felt so bad for him living here in this tiny house, tiny yard, tiny kids, tiny amounts of time to be given to an animal.....lots of tiny going on here. He is doing very well in his new home and we all couldn't be happier!
Just thought ya'll should know.
23 September 2010
21 September 2010
at night......
everyone is in bed. kitchen is clean. table wiped off. if it's a good night floor is swept. dryer running the last load. house is quiet and i have the excited nervous feeling....i can hardly wait.
the air is warm and humid, maybe with a slight breeze. recently it has been cooler. sometimes the smell of a fire is lingering. the moon bright and the stars are out or cloudy and very dark.
turn my ipod on and find my music, no skip this song and the next and the next and the next, oh yes, this is the one. recently there has been no ipod just the sound of me breathing and my feet on the sidewalk or on the street when the sprinklers are running, sometimes on the grass.
people are winding down for the night and watching the news on their big screen tv's. most houses are dark and the streets quiet with a sleepy glow from the street lamps hanging over me every block to light my way....until the bridge. the bridge is very dark with no lights. i like it.
the cares of my day falling to the ground with each step and every drop of sweat. feeling like the only person around for many miles in the middle of the city.
this is why i love to run at night.
the air is warm and humid, maybe with a slight breeze. recently it has been cooler. sometimes the smell of a fire is lingering. the moon bright and the stars are out or cloudy and very dark.
turn my ipod on and find my music, no skip this song and the next and the next and the next, oh yes, this is the one. recently there has been no ipod just the sound of me breathing and my feet on the sidewalk or on the street when the sprinklers are running, sometimes on the grass.
people are winding down for the night and watching the news on their big screen tv's. most houses are dark and the streets quiet with a sleepy glow from the street lamps hanging over me every block to light my way....until the bridge. the bridge is very dark with no lights. i like it.
the cares of my day falling to the ground with each step and every drop of sweat. feeling like the only person around for many miles in the middle of the city.
this is why i love to run at night.
15 September 2010
It's OK
I have lost a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Fatty was at the table eating it, or should have been eating it. He doesn't smell like peanut butter. There is no evidence on clothes or face that he has consumed any peanut butter. I have checked the table, the floor, the bench and chairs, even my cute brown purse he has be carrying around all morning.
Oh well, I guess I will wait for a few days and follow the line of ants that will lead me to the small colony feasting on the very good PB and J.
I will not smell the dog's breath.
Fatty was at the table eating it, or should have been eating it. He doesn't smell like peanut butter. There is no evidence on clothes or face that he has consumed any peanut butter. I have checked the table, the floor, the bench and chairs, even my cute brown purse he has be carrying around all morning.
Oh well, I guess I will wait for a few days and follow the line of ants that will lead me to the small colony feasting on the very good PB and J.
I will not smell the dog's breath.
01 September 2010
Reason #4 Why I love being a stay at home mom....
4:23 pm Monday:
Screaming and yelling ~ crying. "Cole, Nora come to mom". Explanation.
I love being a stay at home mom because at 4 in the afternoon I can take my 5 year old boy aside, discipline him and explain to him the following:
Screaming and yelling ~ crying. "Cole, Nora come to mom". Explanation.
I love being a stay at home mom because at 4 in the afternoon I can take my 5 year old boy aside, discipline him and explain to him the following:
1. You are a fierce courageous knight.
2. Nora is a fair maiden
3. Knights protect fair maidens.
4. Dragons attack the maidens........you are acting like a dragon.
Then I hear "Nora, do you forgive me for being a dragon (and for those of you who don't know Cole, he can't say the letter 'r'). Nora starts laughing and in her overly dramatic chubby little way says, "Mom (with her head tilted and her pudgy hand on her hip), Cole just said he was a dragon.....he's not a dragon (for those of you who don't know Nora, she has a lisp).
06 August 2010
I have a seven year old.
I need to do some writing! I have a few ideas, but nothing is moving me enough to put on my blog. As I am sitting here struggling to get inspired.....there she is. Standing up watching a little movie alone about a chameleon (she isn't downstairs with everyone else watching Prince Caspian because she knows there are scary parts in the movie and doesn't want to have bad dreams). She is wearing a pink plaid skirt, of course! she is always wearing a skirt, a pink and blue swim shirt her cousin just gave her, and a swim suit under all that so she is ready to go to the pool as soon as Dad and Mom give the 'ok'.
We celebrated her birthday in Colorado. On the 30th, which is her day, we were walking through the Garden of the Gods in Colorado Springs. She looked up in awe, climbed, jumped, held tight to her papa, ran, flew, took pictures, drank water, picked up rock, played in the dirt, sat quietly, and said 'this is the best birthday ever!'
You see, even if we were just hanging out at our house in Inver Grove she would have said the same thing 'this is the best birthday ever!' She loves life and reading and being happy and she is sweet and tender and maternal and loving and giving and forgiving and selfless (most of the time) and funny and innocent (you know what i mean!!) and vibrant and daring and little girl and free. I wish I could be more like her sometimes.
The day she was born was a sunny and hot July afternoon. She changed my life (and our marriage) forever the second she was placed in my arms....
'a howling delight a baby to wake me all through the night!'
I love Evelyn Grace Ann Fee.
I thank God that He has allowed me the great blessing of being her momma.
29 July 2010
The Mountains.
We have finally arrived to the wonderful state of Colorado. Not a bad trip at all. I may even be persuaded to say that it was a wonderful trip. But shall I go one step further and say it was a really fun road trip!
We are still about an hour from our hotel and I am thinking about my kids. I am thinking about their limited life experience. I am thinking about what they envision a mountain to look like. We have recently been spending a little time in Stillwater. As you know the hills throughout the town are quite steep. Do my kids stand down by the river and look up those steep hills and think they are mountains? When we drive on 35 southbound through Lakeville, there is Buck Hill. Do my kids watch out the window of the car as we drive by and look at those hills and think they are mountains?
As we pulled into the state of Colorado it’s clear that the landscape is becoming more ‘rolling’ than we have already seen. I heard Cole say ‘Oh look! I think I see a mountain over there!‘ What are their little minds picturing as mountains. Of course they have seen them in movies, but what will they think of seeing them in real life for the first time.
I also can’t help but relate this to their walk with/knowledge of Christ. Right now it’s limited. As far as they are concerned God has made the flowers and the rain. He has made ants and toads. He has made the sun and food. He has made Daddy and Mommy. I think the biggest thing they have seen that God has made, besides the sky, is Lake Superior, which I think is magnificent.
What will they think about the mountains? God created ants, He can fix ant-sized problems. God created trees, so He can fix tree-sized problems. God created Daddy, who IS the strongest most capable man on earth, so God can fix Daddy-sized problems. But now that they have set their little eyes on real mountains, God can fix anything…or at least that is my prayer as we enter Colorado.
So next time we go to Stillwater they can gaze up those hills and know they are just hills,
because they have seen the mountains.
We are still about an hour from our hotel and I am thinking about my kids. I am thinking about their limited life experience. I am thinking about what they envision a mountain to look like. We have recently been spending a little time in Stillwater. As you know the hills throughout the town are quite steep. Do my kids stand down by the river and look up those steep hills and think they are mountains? When we drive on 35 southbound through Lakeville, there is Buck Hill. Do my kids watch out the window of the car as we drive by and look at those hills and think they are mountains?
As we pulled into the state of Colorado it’s clear that the landscape is becoming more ‘rolling’ than we have already seen. I heard Cole say ‘Oh look! I think I see a mountain over there!‘ What are their little minds picturing as mountains. Of course they have seen them in movies, but what will they think of seeing them in real life for the first time.
I also can’t help but relate this to their walk with/knowledge of Christ. Right now it’s limited. As far as they are concerned God has made the flowers and the rain. He has made ants and toads. He has made the sun and food. He has made Daddy and Mommy. I think the biggest thing they have seen that God has made, besides the sky, is Lake Superior, which I think is magnificent.
What will they think about the mountains? God created ants, He can fix ant-sized problems. God created trees, so He can fix tree-sized problems. God created Daddy, who IS the strongest most capable man on earth, so God can fix Daddy-sized problems. But now that they have set their little eyes on real mountains, God can fix anything…or at least that is my prayer as we enter Colorado.
So next time we go to Stillwater they can gaze up those hills and know they are just hills,
because they have seen the mountains.
Morning!
We are on day one of our ten day trip. It is currently 6.35 in the morning and all of my children have been up for two hours.
In those past two hours the day has brought me a beautiful blazing red sunrise, continuing with blankets of thick white fog covering the many fields and meadows of peaceful southern Minnesota, the cornfields with their lush dark green stalks and the yellow tips stretching tall to the sky, and serene calm warm lakes reflecting back perfectly all their surroundings (a favorite memory i have as a child is one from my cabin on Church Pine Lake. I was skiing in the morning on a perfectly calm lake in late summer. I was cutting the wake back and forth and as I would lean in to the next turn the water would rush over the ski boot and my shin every time… it was soooo warm and soooo soft - one of my best memories…I do love to ski.).
Sigh…..I do love road trips. Thank you Lord for this short time of worshipping You through Your great creation.
Stay tuned for what the rest of the day brings me….I’m sure it will have lots to do with eating/spilling food - in the van, and peeing in water bottles - in the van, and crying - in the van, and ARE WE THERE YET??? - in the van, and stop taking your brother’s books - in the van, and take a nap! - in the van, and no you can’t have anymore cookies - in the van (which is what Sean had for breakfast, although they are oatmeal cookies and I think they taste pretty good, so I’ve heard), - in the van, and - in the van, and - in the van, and - in the van.
In those past two hours the day has brought me a beautiful blazing red sunrise, continuing with blankets of thick white fog covering the many fields and meadows of peaceful southern Minnesota, the cornfields with their lush dark green stalks and the yellow tips stretching tall to the sky, and serene calm warm lakes reflecting back perfectly all their surroundings (a favorite memory i have as a child is one from my cabin on Church Pine Lake. I was skiing in the morning on a perfectly calm lake in late summer. I was cutting the wake back and forth and as I would lean in to the next turn the water would rush over the ski boot and my shin every time… it was soooo warm and soooo soft - one of my best memories…I do love to ski.).
Sigh…..I do love road trips. Thank you Lord for this short time of worshipping You through Your great creation.
Stay tuned for what the rest of the day brings me….I’m sure it will have lots to do with eating/spilling food - in the van, and peeing in water bottles - in the van, and crying - in the van, and ARE WE THERE YET??? - in the van, and stop taking your brother’s books - in the van, and take a nap! - in the van, and no you can’t have anymore cookies - in the van (which is what Sean had for breakfast, although they are oatmeal cookies and I think they taste pretty good, so I’ve heard), - in the van, and - in the van, and - in the van, and - in the van.
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