Home Despot Elly

Well! I’ve been thinking more and more in the past year that I’d like to get to know our neighbors more – as in, people who lived in our general neighborhood, not necessarily those who live directly next to us.\par
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This has been a most neighborly week! Last week at the park I met a couple with [...]

As we were walking home from the park yesterday, I learned just how influential and important Judah thinks I am. As we turned down our road, we watched a large tree-chopper/trimmer sort of truck pull out of a driveway and drive off. Judah asked me where it was going, so I told him it was probably [...]

We were at\’c3\’82\’c2\~my parent’s house in the beginning of February, during which time I hardly took any pictures. Here’s a couple though of the boys playing with Grandma’s homemade playdough:\par
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One day Ezra didn’t take a snooze during church, but we were hoping that he’d stay awake until an early bedtime. But we needed a break, so [...]

They came, they saw, they conquered… I hope. Anyway, the exterminator guys came Friday and did a perimeter spray, sprayed inside the infected cupboards, spot-treated along baseboards throughout the house, and left ant-bait behind the outlets so that the ants would take it back to their homes, without me having ants swarming all over bait on [...]

Ugh. We have a black ant infestation. It has driven me/us to the breaking point and this morning I actually scheduled a professional to come and treat the place. They scheduled me for Monday, then called back with an opening for Friday!!\’c3\’82\’c2\~ Woo-hoo! If I find one more black ant crawling out of my hair while [...]

Judah and Ezra have never shared a room. It just hasn’t been necessary, and I’ve enjoyed having them in separate rooms so that they don’t wake each other up, don’t keep\’c3\’82\’c2\~ each other up, and have two separate\’c3\’82\’c2\~ places to go when I send them to their rooms when they get too fractious while I’m trying [...]

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Michael is on a diet plan during tax season, which necessitates a different style of cooking. I only have to provide him one meal a day, but that has to be a lean and green, which implies a chunk of meat and massive quantities of vegetables. I seldom cook pieces of meat, other [...]

Yes, we are officially starting tax season today. Michael could wait until the middle of January or so to start working a lot, but he’s trying to get ahead so that he can have more of a routine throughout tax season rather than working a lot in the beginning and middle and a whole ton at [...]

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If you can’t read my pirated picture: Mommy’s getting her girl!\par
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(and Grandmas [...]

As usual, when lots of things are going on that I could write about, I don’t have time to write. I meant to put up a big post about our Christmas party that we had on Dec. 1, but never got around to it and now it’s not fresh in my mind anymore. Then we were [...]

I have more than these, but I think these are my favorites, although I don’t know which one to choose to mail with our Christmas letters. (excepting the one of just Ezra. I included that here because he is soooo cute) Any thoughts, anyone?\par
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(Note: I just can’t keep up with Judah’s hair… he needs a haircut, [...]

Whew! Last week was busy! I had something going on the first three nights: Monday night I went to Cards (made cookies to bring), Tuesday I had a baby-shower to attend and bring a fruit platter to, and Wednesday night I had most of my in-town relatives over for a lasagna dinner. All but one of [...]

I haven’t blogged much lately – don’t know why exactly. I think of things to write sometimes, but when I get to the computer, I’ve forgotten, or my chosen topic seems too big. For instance, while reading a JC Ryle book about evangelists in the mid 1700s, I kept noting that the family lives of these [...]

About a month ago my back was hurting. I mentioned this to Judah, and he, predictably, asked, “Why?” I replied that I guessed it was because I was getting old. He asked, “Is that because of the baby?” Not really. During the next week we were at my mom’s house, and while we were watching TV, [...]

I’ve just read two Tom Clancy novels recently: Without Remorse and The Hunt For Red October. They’re very engaging, though I tend to skim through the technical descriptions of things – equipment, military protocols and such. I actually started a characters list for the Hunt although I couldn’t keep it up. It’s worse than Anna Karenina, [...]

\’c3\’82\’c2\~Here we are in our costumes for our church’s annual celebration of Reformation Day (otherwise known as Halloween). The idea is to dress in period costume. Some people do really well, others just kind of fudge it, and some people let their kids “be” whoever they want to be, since it’s not like you get to [...]