Spring!

Millie is out of school this week for Spring Break. We're (I'm) looking for some old-school (cheap) entertainment. Remember sliding down the stairs in a sleeping bag? Well, we just mastered that one. The only problem is my heart is in my throat every time I hear that thump, thump, thump down the stairs. It might be a long week. I'm hoping for sunshine in spite of what the weather report says. And a girl can hope, right?

Happy Spring, everyone. (Yes, I know that photo of Laney is bleary. You try getting her to hold still for a second.)

Thank you Easter Bunny

In case I don't make it back here before Easter now I'm ahead of the game.

(Thanks, Jessie, for this photo)

Christmas 2009

Fall 2009 was awesome and I've got the photos to prove it!

Going for a ride on a shovel. What? You've never done that?!

This pretty much sums up Millie.

And this pretty much sums up Laney. :)

COW TRAIN!

Fearless Laney!

The girls in the corn box.

Laney climbing the robe wall to get to the big slide at the pumpkin patch.

Laney, the fierce T-Rex

J and the girls.

Loving the sunshine.

Millie, the devil princess.

Fairy House

Because they are cute

Village

School is in full swing for both of the girls. Yesterday it was summer vacation and then I turned around for one second and suddenly we are already 3 weeks into the school year. That is how time seems to pass around here. So quickly that the last week of summer when Millie was sick with the barfing flu and ended up at Primary Children's Hospital is already a distant memory to me and to her. ("Mom? Do you remember when I was so brave and I got that needle in my arm so my blood could have a drink?" I remember. And Grandma Tammy hurried to our house in the morning so I could go to the hospital? And the next day Grandma Bullough came over? Yes and yes.)

That is not an illness I wish to repeat. Ever. But the one thing it did make me realize is how lucky we are to have family and friends who drop everything to help out. Tammy was at our house within an hour of my scared and tearful and exhausted phone call. My mom came over the next day for moral support and just in time for Laney to get sick (not as bad as Millie). William and Ann brought the girls a laptop (a laptop!) that is theirs to keep forever. You should see Millie play Majong Titans on that thing. Tim and Camille made us pizza when we were too tired to feed ourselves.

...Sometimes it really does take a village. And what a good village we have.