We’re off and running
I’ve really not been great about blogging lately. To be honest, we’ve just been moving right on through to all of our “winter-project-to-do” lists and whatnot around here. Oh yeah, and taking care of those kiddos takes up a fair amount of time too. I think the first of the year can bring with it the false feeling that somehow since the holidays are over, life will slow down. But life is still the same with all of it’s needs, responsilbiites and cares. I’m thankful for lots to do though, especially during these long cold months indoors. The kids and I may be “hunkered down” for the most part, but we are all but bored and without task. Just ask her…
We officially have a 5 month old - eating cereal, chewing on hands, rocking the exer-saucer, and by-golly has a tiny little tooth just starting to rear it’s white little tip. How is this seriously possible? Didn’t she just open her eyes to mine? Wasn’t I just carrying her in the snugli just so I could can up the last of our tomato harvest? Does time just laugh at you as it whisks by? We are trying to laugh along with it and enjoy these precious days, however tiring and unrelenting they may be.
She loves this thing.
She’s a tough cookie….push-ups are her specialty these days.
Tava took the first helpings of rice cereal like a champ, all runny and slurpy as those first “bites” are.
We have lots of these pictures lately. Truman asks frequently to hold Tava and the hitting incidences have subsided, (that is, in fact, unless you look like a drum to Truman…no, then you’ll be drummed upon, at which point the drummer will receive disciplinary action).
And lots of these too….in fact…our Christmas day present from Truman was that he actually figured out how to give a kiss! And he hasn’t stopped giving them since and boy are we loving it:)
What kinds of winter-to-dos are up my sleeves, you may ask? Oh, nothing grandiously exciting: clean/sort the bathroom closet, clean carpets, sort clothes for thrift store, finish touching up paint on finished window trim, re-hang kitchen valences, finish an apron (for myself:), work on start Tava’s scrapbook. My dear husband on the other hand has begun the basement work once again. He is currently working on removing the tar and old carpet glue/pieces from the concrete slab….something that’s taking a bit more than elbow grease itself. Some of you have asked for pictures…..I guess we’ll post some when there are pictures worth showing!
On the camp end of things, life is full and good and busy! These days, you might typically find Sam manning a tow building on the ski hill, supervising the ski tow rope, teaching Geo-caching to outdoor education students, fixing critical equipment for the kitchen, filling the wood burners up, or plugging away at the list of maintenance needs around camp. God is continuing to bring people through our doors who are in need of drawing nearer to Him, which is each and every one of us really. Weekends are packed with groups from all over the region. We’ve also had several outdoor ed groups in during the weekdays already.
We are grateful to be a part of all that is happening at Camp Forest Springs and in the little Smith household too. HE has withheld no good thing!