Loving Life

WARNING: Very long post ahead! We put 2545 miles on our trusty van in 12 days. Since we have lots of time during our sabbatical, we decided to take an extended family vacation this summer and drive farther than our usual three to four hours from home for our vacation. Aaron's a huge history fan, and is especially fascinated by Civil War history. So we decided to knock something off his bucket list of things to see by heading south and following Grant's trail to the Siege of Vicksburg in Mississippi. We prepared by checking out all sorts of library books of various levels about the Siege of Vicksburg so everyone could be read up on their facts and know what they were looking at and hopefully find it more interesting. But before we started our journey, a few days before, Keilah thought it would be a good idea to give herself a manicure and facial with some nail polish Abby left out on the floor. Amazingly, Keilah painted herself while sitting on our carpet and didn...

January 25. That was the date of my last post. Now it is May 25. Four months have flown by and I did not post anything. It's not that I didn't have time. I did. I guess I had other things to do. Track season came and went for both Aaron and me. We had fun with it. I felt a little more comfortable in the responsibility of it. I still have a great coach working with me that I am learning from. If I can become half as good of a coach as he is, then I'll be doing well. School is over for Ana. David has another day. Abby has two days left. I didn't feel quite as drained by the end of the year as I sometimes have in the past. I still have to silence my inner critic when I try to feel like I'm failing at teaching my kids because I'm not doing it all perfectly. As if any of us do. So obviously a whole lot has happened in four months, but I won't bore you with it all. Here are a few snapshots into our lives lately since January. Keilah adores all things My Littl...