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Tom gets engaged!… Mood shift – moment by moment… Image 1: Angel by the pond. Image 2: Angel, slightly stinky by the pond. Image 3: Angel with feelings showing. By the pond. Hugo did everything terrifying at the ropes course! I don’t think it looks as big in this video as it was in realContinue reading “Summertime, and the living is easy…”

We were riding in the car yesterday and I had bought a big bag of potato chips that were sitting in view between the front seats. The sandwiches were in the trunk, and we were on our way to have a picnic and go to the library for the afternoon. Ishmael asked, “Are potato chipsContinue reading “Ishmael’s Thought Process”

This is just another random thing I found while moving through my day. Pax is a big jokester and I don’t know if this toilette paper was a plan at an April Fool’s prank or if it had a more complicated story behind it. This year, April Fool’s Day lasted for the month of April.Continue reading “Life with crazy boys….”

I picked up Hugo from his Wednesday school today. Once a week he goes without any of the rest of us to a school in the woods. The teacher told me that Hugo took her aside today and told her that he was going to marry Olive. Later, when I asked him how the dayContinue reading “Was Great-Grandfather Hugo this smooth with the honeys too?”

This was our big snowstorm this year. It was windy and drifty and lasted all day and into the night. Nobody was on the roads. It was beautiful. I woke up in the morning and looked out of the window to nothing. No storm. I felt a little disappointed and sat, looking out of theContinue reading “Winter in vacationland”

It’s now 2 days after Christmas, but I still haven’t left our property. I’m holding onto this Christmas feeling for as long as I can. It feels magical here on the farm: snow, ice skating on the pond, pulling the boys through the woods in sleds and cooking hot chocolate on the outside fire withContinue reading “Merry Christmas”

Everyone went to bed crazy early this evening. Papa spent today outside and it was COLD. Yesterday, he had a Covid booster. Today he had a headache. And an excavator. And a crazy work day having to get everything done before the dark. When he finally came in the door for dinner, he was allContinue reading “Paxy and me up late (almost 9!)”

Was pirate themed this year. One morning, Hugo woke up and said that he needed to see a real pirate ship. So we looked online for museums that had pirate exhibits. I kept talking about that awesome exhibit Gideon and I went to about pirates. It was in Portland, by the water on Commercial Street.Continue reading “Thanksgiving”

Check out the lack of hair! No more hair-time hours with the Octonauts. No more teeny-tiny elastic bands for the ends of teeny-tiny braids. They look so much older with their boy-cuts. You can’t really tell in this picture, but Hugo cut the front part of his hair in the center. He came running upContinue reading “That’s Captain Ray-Guy in the front with Captain Punch-Pants behind him”