Our 2023/2024 school year is over! We’ve finished 6th and 3rd grade and the girls have also done their End of grade testing online, so now it’s officially summer for them!! It’s been 2 weeks since my in-laws have moved in with us and we’re getting more into a rhythm, it’s hard though, when you …
It’s been a week now of my in-laws living with us! It’s been an adjustment to say the least! Grandma is 93 and has heart failure and is weak, grandpa is 97 and has dementia and that’s worse, we still have to show him where the bathroom is and especially in the middle of the …
Monday we had 4 days planned at the beach, my friend has a house she rents out there and in March I asked her what she had available in the summer up until September and these were the ONLY days, a little too early for us for homeschooling for Solveig was done, so we took …
This week Dan prepped and stained the hardwood floor section in our kitchen where the old cabinets were and the wood was just bare. We knew that if you add NEW hardwood floors up against an OLD floor you have to “feather” the boards in, so we figured stained was the same method, so he …
Oh Boy the Cicadas are out now! luckily our neighborhood is not really wooded, only at the edges and then whatever random trees we’ve all planted since moving in, so the Cicadas are not that loud here but it’s just a low humming constantly, but in TOWN it’s very wooden and OLD and LOUD!! Bjorn’s …
It’s spring time! The Cicadas are out (not too loud near us, but pretty loud downtown!) Bjorn LOVES watermelon, so this year Dan bought some watermelon and pumpkin seeds and planted them in starter boxes They quickly grew! Â He also tilled a nice plot for them and he’s working on some sort of drainage …
Solveig is done with the semester at Meredith (though she’s saying for some social stuff this weekend, then coming home Monday, she’s made a couple of trips home with LOTS of stuff to empty out her dorm room!) She’s done with ceramics and had lots of fun! Here the assignment was to do a “coiled” …
This sickness in our house is just lingering! I seem to have a sore throat and cough for a week now! I thought moms weren’t allowed to get sick! I HAVE been sewing some at least this week, I finished up a priscilla and star block in hunter green, now I think I have 24 …
Did you see the Eclipse last Monday? We stayed home and watched the partial one- I think it was 70%, still got dark Solveig was able to take this picture and send it to us This one was MY Eclipse 🙂 Bjorn actually drove with coworkers to Ohio and saw it 100% and said it …
My husband has a few days left before his severance kicks in, he’s applying for jobs every day but there’s NOTHING out there, our biggest “worry” is really health insurance for our family, I know COBRA is going to be expensive. We’re open to recommendations! On the home front, we haven’t done that much this …