Valentines

This week we’ve had fun making some valentines. Actually, we started last week because I thought Valentine’s Day was just this past Sunday! j was joking with me because we usually are late for birthday cards and anniversary cards, but I sure got those Valentine’s sent out on time! I wanted to share with you two links that I look to for ideas for kids and crafts. The first one is the Crafty Crow and the second one I just found is called Skip To My Lou. I have come across several ideas for this Valentine’s Day from these two blogs, including the “stained glass hearts” we made for our school room window! Enjoy all the cutting, gluing and...

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Christmas 2007

We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas in New York visiting j’s family. Unfortunately, our son, c had a cold that he shared with papa and mmom (stands for magic mom) . So it ended up being a time of mainly recovering and just sitting around. For Christmas every year j’s Mom, makes gingerbread men. She decorates them and puts one in each of our stockings. This year I was so surprised when I looked in my stocking and saw two gingerbread men! One of them had a heart and question mark on it. j also had two, another little man with a heart and question mark on it. I of course, was brought to tears. My dear sister-in-law and mmom have consistently remembered that we are “expecting”. In their own ways they remembered our children in Ethiopia this...

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