"I'm reading Mommy..."

"John chapter 3."

During the communion season...

...we had 10 people living in the manse, one was out and working quite a bit unfortunately, 7 of them were 13 to 2 yrs of age, one was(rather is!) massively pregnant, and the other lady well, she seemed to have everything organized! Although you might think it was chaos, it was actually very nice to have a houseful of people and little ones! Amelia took to Abby, Owen had a lot of people to hold him, and Aaron well, he still remained mostly to himself. The communion went well, although by the end of it we were all quite tired, and poor Mrs. Smith (um, the Wisconsin one I mean) had to drive 12hrs back to her home...hopefully she hasn't caught a bug or something along the way.

So, I tried to be a good girl and get a few pictures to remember this special time. Here is Josiah and Owen.Mrs. Smith's children and one of Mrs. Smith's children (lol)

More Smiths.

Amelia and Abby! :) (Julia might like this picture!)

Owen and Abby (she is such a loving, little mother!)

And Dena has a good picture of Mrs. Smith and herself, and also another of me and Dena, but I'll have to get that from her later. :)

My silly children :)

Like my little boys mustache? I think it enhances his smile. :D

:)

A little excited are we?

Amelia is demonstrating a female elk or deer...see, they don't have antlers so she has to improvise with little stumps or something...looks more like a moose but nevermind. :)

The clown of the family...

We will be busy for the rest of this week - communion season here in Chesley. We hope to have 6 extra people here, so yes I doubt I'll be around in the world wide web that is. Have a lovely week :)

we woke up to...

this.And then it was impossible to get Aaron to eat his breakfast, snow was much more interesting.

Owen was making faces at me...the little mouse (I want to say rat but that sounds too mean). He woke up at 5:30...and I thought he stayed in his room but I guess I was so sleepy I never heard him go downstairs, get into the fridge and help himself to a square...and then he popped back into his room and thats when I thought he just go out of bed...bad little boy. I found a couple of squares on the floor this morning, plus he was in the office...thankfully the computer was in my room...or else well, I don't want to think of what he might have done. How do you keep this child from going downstairs?!?! He is climbing out of his playpen/cot, and then even out of the stairgate I put in the boys doorway...*sigh* it is a lost cause to be sure.

Amelia gave a sweet smile this morning, she too was extremely excited that it was snowing, and kept telling me that it was now winter. :)

What did the forecaster say? oh about 2 cms of snow? Does this look like 2 cm?

Owen had too long of a nap yesterday on the couch...do you think he will cry when he tries to get out?

my sister

Is wonderful.

A wonderwoman or superwoman...poor thing she is probably exhausted by being at my place. But we sooo enjoyed her visit here! Oh, I'm tired too, visiting takes a lot out of a person, but it is a good tired, and we get an extra hour tonight...well, not that it means much with little kids, because inevitably it throws them off schedule.

So, why is my sister so wonderful you might ask? I mean, she is of course wonderful because she is my sister, that makes her special enough! But, on this occasion she knocked my socks off, so to speak! Ok, she brought lets think, one main meal, two lunches, breakfast fixings, and loads of snacks. She also brought a lot of things for the kids to do (crafts, books etc etc!). She also took all 5 KIDS (her two, and my three) to the park and to the library while I went to go get groceries. AND she brought me these....


Tompoezen!!!
What a neat word too eh? There is always something wonderful having a sister who lives near a Dutch bakery... :D

But, my dear sister bought me these as well...

Aren't they pretty? They are so lovely, but not as lovely as the one who gave them!
So, Jackie, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING!!

Now...how can I repay at least in some measure her kindness? Leave your thoughts and ideas in the comments section. :)