One Year

Our baby is 1 year old!  The past year went incredibly fast.  I've cherished the moments even more because I’m getting older … not sure if there will be another little one, ya know?  There are lots of pics because we celebrated his birthday over a couple days and in-between ‘hunt's’.  His daddy and brother, Dash, were preparing for hunting on Friday morning and didn’t get back until late on his REAL birthday.  So, Louis had cake with the cousins and aunties on Friday.  He opened presents from his cousins.  Early Saturday morn, he opened his gift from Grandpa & Grandma Golden Acres – Grandpa helped free his new riding toy form the plastic ties.  He opened his gift from us (Mom & Dad) on Saturday evening after Mass.  After returning from the Miller Deer Hunt, we celebrated his birthday with Grandma & Grandpa Green Acres & Tante Lori on Monday afternoon. 

 

Grandma Golden Acres made this Angel Food Farm Cake for Louis (or, as you can see, Leo).

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Monday sequel!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The beauty of Farm Cakes is that all the ingredients for an awesome cake are in the toy box!

Wordless Wednesday

 

 

 

DayLook – November 2, 2010

For Today:  Tuesday, November 2, 2010 – All Souls

Looking out from my back porch... the garden cages, fences, and hoses are put away.  Now, to get out there and take care of the dried up tomato plants.  Need to clear a few items off of the front and back porch, too. 

I am thinking about... Louis.  He’s had such a hard time sleeping the past couple nights; I hope the next couple are better.

I am thankful for... good friends – this time, the Grant’s – who make a feast day festive!

I am reading... good grief, I haven’t touched a book that is deeper than my kids’ school texts for over a week.

I am hoping... for a productive week.  Need to plug through a few items on that To-Do list.

I am hearing... absolutely nothing.  It’s truly beautiful.

From the sewing/craft room (aka. laundry room!)... well, thank goodness I’ve washed some laundry.  Crafts – not so much – unless you count the tissue paper flowers the kids made on Monday.

From the school room... Dash has been working hard, Angelina and Zeke are doing well, too.  Graham drags his feet some days, but Angelina has been so good about finding a way to bring learning into his day.  She’s a natural.

From the kitchen... Holy Ghost cookies and Soul Cakes for our All Saints party yesterday.  The dough used for the Soul Cakes was REALLY good – maybe add raisins, currants, or another dried fruit and I could eat a dozen.

State of the house... nothing has improved, but it hasn’t gotten worse, either!

A successful moment... we celebrated a feast day in style!

A few plans for the rest of the week…
Monday: All Saints Celebration at the Grant home.

Tuesday: Please say a prayer for my hubby – he has his performance review today.  Angelina has dance tonight.  ELECTIONS!  I voted by absentee – with five kids at home, you really never know if you’ll be able to get away.

Wednesday: Hopefully this is a day spent at home.

Thursday:   Visiting relatives today.

Friday/Saturday/Sunday:   Deer Hunting Opening Weekend.  Louis turns 1 year on Friday!

A picture memory...

These pics are from November 2008.  The group I was involved with started a lefse fundraiser.  We all got together and rolled/grilled between 275-345 rounds of lefse on one Saturday each November.  Most of the packages were pre-sold.  Very few were left for sale, which is a great way to do a fundraiser.  It was a great amount of prep and work on the days preceding and the day of the grilling, but it covered the childcare cost for four childcare workers at two meetings per month.  (The work was set up in shifts, so not everyone who helped is pictured below.)  It was a great bonding experience, and multi-generational, as well.  My mom usually came to help, and at least two other women brought their mothers, too.

 

 

 

 

All Saints Day!

The kids and I got together with friends – The Grant Family - to celebrate All Saints Day and have a bit of fun.  We started our celebration with the Litany of Saints and a saint parade.  Each child gave a few clues about his or her saint so the rest of us could guess their saint. 

While Sarah and I worked on preparing lunch, the kids created a tissue paper Saintly Spiritual Bouquet.  The boys each did one and the older girls rounded out the bouquet by making a flower for each of the little kids.

It’s truly surprising how fast the time goes when you are having fun! 

The menu consisted of Tuna Toasties, St. Lucy’s eyeball wraps, Bone Salad, Martyr Punch, Holy Ghost cookies, Halo Pretzels, Soul Cakes (they actually look like hot-crossed buns), and Mary’s Tears (pumpkin seeds).  Seriously, my favorite was the St. Lucy eyeball wraps.  I’ll have to get the recipe from Sarah and re-create it for a special post.  I’m not quite sure how many I ate! 

After lunch, the kids played outside (it was a gorgeous day!), played a black-out game of Saint Bingo complete with prizes for everyone, and had snacks – St. Bartholomew’s Brew (again, this was a great recipe – I hope to post it later) and St. Hildegard’s produce (basically a veggie tray with dip).  Sarah and I had about a half hour to put our feet up, and then it was time to pack up everyone and everything.

Zeke at St. Patrick

 

Miss Grant as St. Bridget

 

Graham as St. George

 

Angelina is holding Louis, who is St. Joseph.  His costume didn’t last long, but he was cute.

 

Dash as St. Gregory, a German monk.  Wow, can you tell he’s had a growth spurt!

 

Mr. Grant as St. Kolbe.  Yes, I told you I’d post the crazy one…

 

Angelina as St. Winnifred

 

Miss Grant as St. Gemma

 

 

 

 

Angelina & Ms. Grant with the Saintly Spiritual Bouquet, which will be given to friends.

 

Sarah (right) and Me!

 

A cute blast from the past of Angelina and Miss Grant at a past All Saints Day Party.