Well, how was everyone’s holiday weekend?  Ours went surprisingly well. The good weather meant that we could have everything outside, which was the plan… in order to show off and use our new outdoor projector and screen! The setup is still a work in progress, but this is just such a fun thing to have.  […]

We made quite the weekend out of it! On Saturday, we had as many family as we could outside in our backyard for a Father’s Day barbecue!  This meant Grandma and Gichan, Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa, Ressis and Oddball and their kids, and Auntie and JW.  We haven’t all been together in the same place since…. […]

No ceremonies, no concerts, no baseball games, and no sunshine. Just lots of rain and social distancing. Last year, Ane and I went to our local cemetery’s Memorial Day service and I found it to be so much more satisfying than the one at the big cemetery (though I am drawn to the big one […]

We might be on lockdown, but Christ is still risen, and Easter still happened.  And the kids were excited about it – excited enough to dress up, just to please their mother, and to take pictures. Don’t they look nice?  All dressed up and ready for Easter Sunday church… on the TV. But there were […]