Froemmings

Brynn made some personalized decorations for Clara's lamp. Brynn is still a huge Harry Potter fan. She wanted to write to one of her favorite actresses from the movie, Emma Watson, who plays Hermione. She thought she was able to find her address on the internet somewhere. She keeps telling me how she thinks about her letter every day and wonders when she might receive a reply back. I was hoping she wouldn't get her hopes up too high about getting something in return, but she said she's not. So, we shall see! Clara was working on multiplication one morning last week. Brynn repainted one of her old bird houses. The girls were playing this game of sorts where they had to draw blindfolded. Together with our next-door neighbor, Dana rented this rig and cut down some dead trees between our properties. I think he had the time of his life that day. He's been able to get a lot of outside projects done and things cleaned up in his time off. He r...

We've already gone through a couple of 'quarantine birthdays' in the family, with the first being Benjamin's whose we weren't able to celebrate in person, right at the beginning of the pandemic. My sister's was on the 9th of April. So, here we are at yet a couple more, celebrating from afar. Well, in Dana's case with the immediate fam anyhow.  His actual birthday was on Saturday. I had pre-ordered Sandy's donuts for delivery the AM. It was so exciting to just have them show up on our (very muddy) doorstep! I told Clara she could start us off while we waited to Dad to wake up. Then we got the idea to stick a candle in a couple of them. We lit the candle when we heard him shut the shower off. Then we waited while he got dressed and before we knew it, he was talking on the phone and Clara and I kept nervously looking at the candle, wondering how long it was going to last before he came into the kitchen and noticed it. He was video messa...