Greetings from our house to yours. If you are reading this blog you are
aware that I gave up Christmas cards a few years ago and started blogging. I love the excitement of getting
Christmas cards and even feel a bit guilty opening them since I’m not sending
any out.
As the kids are getting older our life is
getting busier which means I have not posted to our blog very much. You can read the posts from this year
to learn about the kids learning to ski, our spring break fun and our summer
vacation to Kentucky.
GARRETT
Life in general continues to keep us busy. Garrett is 8 years old and enjoying the 3rd grade. He spent his year playing basketball in the spring, baseball in the summer, and football in the fall. He continues to enjoy the farm and helping his dad. Most of the time I don’t want to know what he is doing or what equipment he has learned to drive. Some things a mother just does not want to know. He also likes to tag along when hunting birds or deer. I have a feeling we are not too far away from having to eat some deer meat. Can’t wait for that! (hear the sarcasm) 4-H has been an addition to his activities. I should make a post about his first year project of entomology. We learned lots, but mostly we learned this is a tedious project for an 8 year old. Next year we will NOT be hunting, freezing and pinning insects. Instead we will be feeding a bucket calf twice a day. (Garrett’s parents might be a bit simple)
ANNA
Anna is 6 and enjoys Kindergarten. She has taken dance lessons the last few years but this year she moved up to twirling. She sometimes likes to go with Dad at the farm but her favorite things at the farm are the horses. Around the house her favorite thing to do is “create” with whatever art supplies she can dig up. She is going to be a tag-a-long 4-Her this year and will be joining her brother with a bucket calf. I have no doubt she will love every second of it.
SAM
Sam is 4 and goes to pre-school one morning a week. He was not so sure about school at first but now looks forward to playing with other kids. He loves baseball. He likes to take his glove with him everywhere he goes and has even been known to sleep with it on occasion. When he can’t talk someone into paying ball with him he turns to tractors and cars.
I’m teaching ¾ time at Wilson Elementary School. This means I get to spend every other afternoon with Sam. I still teach computers to the elementary students and have taken on some of the Title I job working with students struggling in areas of reading or math.
Joe is still farming with one of his brothers. They keep busy all year with cattle and crops. They are always looking for ways to become more efficient and their wives are always waiting for the slow time of the year, which seems to never come.
We wish you good health and happiness in the coming year. Keep watching my blog; maybe this will be the year I find more time to blog.
