The Advent Storybook

We purchased this book several years ago. The story begins on Dec 1st and there is a story for each day up to the 24th. The little bear hears a story from his mother each night about another little bear following the special star. He meets various people and animals on his journey to Bethlehem. This is our 4th year reading it. I opened it to check when it was written and was suprised to find that it was first published in German in 2004 and in English in 2005. It is the type of book that is timeless, so I expected it be written a long time ago. It is for children, but the book is actually quite thoughtful in it's simplicity. Isabelle and Joseph still very much look forward to reading it, and actually so do I. Reading this book seems to have made it's way into becoming a sweet family tradition!

Thankful Thursday

I am thankful for our Thanskgiving Feast last week!

Now, I'm thankful to be working that food off!!

For calm daily life.

For our children!

For our dogs who are so funny!

For the richness of family life.

For all our blessings!

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was really lovely! Lot's of family and lot's of food! It was Aunt Becky and Uncle Tony's year to host the meal and so we headed over there for the day. Everyone brought along a dish or two for the feast.

These are some random photo's. Guess what? Brendon snapped all the pictures this holiday!

Uncle Tony and Dad

Mimi and Isabelle holding Lily!

The guys playing rook!

Cousins

Papa with Isabelle and Joseph

All of us ladies looking at photo's!

Tamara, Alison, Teresa

Susan, Isabelle, Becky, Shelley

Babies and Hair!

Isabelle and Mommy!

This cute picture scrolled across my screensaver, and I had to share it!

I also noticed that there was not single gray hair in my head!

(and there's still not!;)

Coffee Break

We have been concentrating on homeschool this past week. Believe me, it takes all our concentration at the moment. We are craving a break in our routine and looking forward to a lighter work load. We will have a week off for the Thanksgiving Holiday!

I'm looking forward to coffee breaks (and suddently I have a craving for tea) and visiting relatives and friends. Just having fun in general!

I wish I could meet all of you for coffee/tea and chit chat!

Thankful Thursday

I'm so blessed to be a wife and mother!

Thank you Brendon for fixing the mirror over the mantle!

I'm thankful for homeschool!

We are thankful for the amazing art class the kids have this year! It's a highlight every week!

We give thanks for our good friends!

Thanks to the chiro/sports rehab who is fixing me up, so I can run, bike and swim again!

There's always thanks given for that hot cup of coffee! Joy!

The Wedding Picture

There were a few requests for a wedding picture! You know, back in the old days we did not have digital photography and therefor it takes a few minutes to find a photo and scan it etc..and I just got a little busy this week. In fact (speaking of computers) we never even emailed each other the entire time we dated! Isn't it crazy how much things have changed in just over a decade?!!!