Saturday, November 14, 2009

Peace in the Valley... everyday life

The last few days at our house have been so peaceful. I find that, that peace brings me hope. Joe stayed home from work feeling a bit ill the other day. Seems like everyone has come down with a little something lately. It was a great day, tho. We did science experiments and read in our history books. Janie and I corrected her algebra test and Mitch and I played a game of fraction bingo! It's the time of year when we always have a fire in the woodstove and everything feels so cozy and comforting. It was lovely to have everyone in the house for the day.
Yesterday we went into town to my great friend, Jackie's house. She helped me with some homemade sausage that Joe and I had taken too much fat out of. She is really smart and I'm lucky to have her as my friend. She took Mitch and her kids to the library for homeschool story time while I took Janie up to George and Lucy's for her weekly Spanish lessons. George and Lucy are friends that have adopted my children as their very own grandchildren. I picked up Mitch from the library and we went up to enjoy their company one last time before they head to Arizona and Mexico for the winter. George made balloon animals and did magic tricks and made us lunch as the snow started to fly outside.
It's a snowy morning today and the fire is burning hot. I finished up some sewing and made a special breakfast for my family. Janie is snuggled up on the couch feeling a little under the weather... is she really sick or is it that she doesn't have her Israel report finished? Hmmmm....
Well, greetings from the mountain! Hope your day is as cozy as ours promises to be.

5 comments:

  1. First of all, I love your new header picture of Mt. Emily. Gorgeous! Second of all, I feel lucky to have you for a friend and I hope we get to know each other a lot better. I love people who make me laugh, which is funny because I can't tell a joke to save my life :P So George and Lucy...I think I know who these guys are. Is their last name Gilchrist? If so, the were the very first people I met when moving to La Grande because we rented a little house from them on Z Avenue.

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  2. yup! our great friends george and lucy gilchrist. lucy teaches janie spanish and george dotes on the boys. we're lucky to have them in our lives.

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  3. wait! that picture on the header is behind my house... mt. fanny, crazy girl! :)

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  4. Are you serious? I could have sworn that was Mt. Emily! Oops!

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