A few photos

This was our presentation for International Night with our home school group on Nov. 7th. Click onthe photo for a close up view.
The kids worked hard and did a great job. We were proud of them!
Anybody from Iowa know what these are?
hint: You might eat a pie made from them on Thanksgiving....they're pecans (or "pee-cans for NC'ers) from a tree next door!

Fall colors--a bit late

Our house and the beautiful oak trees with their red leaves
On the way into town
Looking out our bedroom window to the wet land behind our house
Another picture of what's behind our house. It was so pretty for a few weeks, but now has passed. For a while it seemed that the light actually "glowed" with color. It was very spectacular.

Sarah has been busy!

Sarah has been quite busy lately with sewing and knitting, and is becoming proficient in both of these handcrafts. Below are pictures of her with the place mats she made from her birthday "sewing class with Mama." She took to the sewing machine right off, and I think she will become a good seamstress in time. Sometimes a person "has the feel for it" and she obviously does--I could see it as she ran the machine and handled the fabrics. This, of course, made me smile inside. The top picture is of her knitting project. It is a gift for someone this Christmas; one that she thought of and then followed through on by herself with a bit of help from me.

Hives...revisited

Last week I was sick. Really sick, with a terrible sinus infection. I was able to get into the dr. on Sat. am and he gave me a very high dose prescription for amoxicillin. I starteed it Saturday and started feeling better by Sunday afternoon. (I guess that wasjust yesterday, huh?) Late last night I started itching around my waist but thought it was form the tights I was wearing. Upon further investigation, I had hives there and also in my hair, on my ears, and stomach. Somehow, I remembered that last time I had the hives, they had started after a double stint on antibiotics. The drs. had questioned whether or not I was allergic to them. About 2 seconds later I was in a near panic. I knew I could not endure another stint of hives like I had last summer/fall. Thankfully I had talked about it with a friend and she happened to be coming over today to dip Advent candles with us (another post for another day--we had fun). She is knowledgable in homeopathic stuff and reccommended colloidal silver. She had used it before with great results. Very thankfully, she had some and brought some when she come. I still can feel the sinus infection--it is a bad one this time, and I know it is not gone from just the 2 days on amoxicillin, so I have taken the silver and am praying for good results. If anyone has other ideas, please let me hear them. I'm willing to try about anything to keep from having those hives again.
Off to make supper--kids are hungry! We had a very fun and busy day, so it's a good kind of hungry tonight!

Totally weird

OK, it continues. I went to a knitting class Saturday and the instructor was a retired--------wait for it-----



adoption social worker. Maybe money will start falling from the sky tomorrow, then we'll be 100% sure what we're supposed to be doing. I'll let you know how it goes.

I'm getting a little worried now

because during today's field trip another mom started asking me about the kids' adoptions (they are in process for Ethiopia). When we got home, there was a letter from Holt in the mailbox. Admittedly, it was asking for donations, but really--that's kind of strange since we haven't received anything like it for many, many months.

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Hi Families

This is the name of the Holt magazine that started coming to our house when we were in process for the girls' adoption. When a family is not in process, the magazine stops coming. It started arriving not long before we started the process for Marty, even though we should not have been receiving it.
It was in yesterday's mail. It was in last month's mail. I cannot stop wondering who? Who is it, Lord, that you want us to know? Who is it that you want us to look for?