Aleaha's Blog

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

Tribute to Nana

Our beloved Nana was released from this life to the next on May 23, and we will soon gather to celebrate her life and legacy as the matriarch of our family. We have been reminiscing and sharing photos. She was with this world for 102 years, and she is so deserving of Eternal Peace.

In her honor, the night of her passing, I went for comfort food....fried chicken (which we ate for many a Monday night when she spent the night with us as I was growing up), and a very small glass of wine, kept nearly full for a good part of the evening.

Farm Life

Miri and Aleaha helped put in another pasture.

Teensie the Goat. Such a cutie-girl! Doesn't everybody want a goat?!? We love 'em.

Little Miss Buckin' Horse.

Brothers

Funny masked boys up on the hill.

Sisters

Enjoyed the gift an an unusually warm mid-May to wear sundresses to school. Miri's footwear choice is typical.....simply unexplainable.

Make your own pizza night. (You'd think after making it exactly to their own stated specificications, they'd want to actually eat it. But that's not a given.)

Give Us This Day...

We were reciting our prayers the other night, and it had been a while since my children had done this. I said The Our Father and The Hail Mary, and then I reminded them of the familiar and child-friendly bedtime prayer of Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep. Miri listened with ears wide open, soaking it all in.

The next night, Aleaha wanted to recite the bedtime prayer herself, and she did so very nicely. But Miri quickly exclaimed with heavy criticism in her voice, "You forgot the part about the bread!!"

Monday, May 13, 2013

Where they get their antics....

I was given a surprise of the piano being moved into the house last Friday - yay! Daddy and the crew took a moment to prove what the little bench by the water feature out front was built for....