Pray for Nathanael and Andrew’s Mom along with their family as they deal with her newly diagnosed Cancer. It is a long road ahead. I have this photo of her from 2005.
Here is a flash to the past…a photo of Nathanael and his “little brother” Andrew on the final day of the very first TeenPact State Class in Maine in April 2002!!
So, here’s the group photo from last week when Erik’s life changed forever. We are all very happy and proud of him!
One of my friends named Dawn joined with a favorite librarian at our local library to make a plan. Lets have a knitting circle in the Children’s Room. We can show people how to knit, then we can show them how to make “squares” for Warm Up America. So, several people showed up at the library the other day. Some of us already knew how to knit. We then did our best to teach other others how. We hope they come back next week to show us how their practice this week has gone. Ruth and Anna already knew how to knit, naturally since their mom’s, me and Dawn already taught them! Now if only our children’s librarian could come back to see how it’s working out!
We just returned from Portland where Erik enlisted in the Maine Army National Guard. He has his first drill weekend this weekend. He reports for basic training on February 28th.
Anna is on the right…Fran took her a couple neighborhood friends sledding. That always comes with a price. He came home with a fat lip and a sore rib. I guess maybe Anna is a little too big to be riding down the hill on a sled on her Dad’s back!
So, It snowed most of December and into January. Actually, we’ve been a few days without a storm. We had a couple days of single digit temps, but today was a balmy 25 degrees!
Normal is just about back. The decorations are still in various states of away. The ornaments are sorted and stashed, but there are other things languishing in piles around the house.