Yesterday I made the call. Just outside our door it was still a sheet of ice and while I could see that it was thawing, it just wasn’t thawing fast enough. I texted a few people that live near the church and asked them about what it looked like. One person even sent me a pic of…
Being iced in but ready to go OUT
It is day six in our house this morning. Yesterday we thought the ice would melt but it only began to melt yesterday. Last night, Ana tried to work her way down some ice to try to take Pushkin out and she had told me she had walked through ice before but came back to me to…
A few thoughts on a snowy Sunday
I just looked at my memories on Facebook from seven years ago. I was serving at Rose City Park UMC and it had snowed. Quite a bit! I remember shovelling the sidewalk with our custodian Michael who has since passed and we had quite a few laughs that day together. We had decided to have just one…
It’s snowing! Or is that just ice? Maybe snow?
It started days ago with warnings of storms and snow. In Oregon if there is a threat of snow, everything shuts down. I warned Ana about this but this is the first time she has really seen all of this in action. It has been making her chuckle all along the way. She keeps telling…
Time is so weird
This morning at 6:15am or so I heard the boy starting to wake up over the monitor. His little voice said something in baby babble. I expected to hear a cry next and I would get up to meet him. I had been laying awake a few minutes wondering if I got up, would I…
A new year…but it feels like its been at least three…
It has been a while since I have been on the blog. There are some reasons for this but hopefully I am back more often. For those of you checking almost every day…..thank you for staying tuned and hopefully I will be able to contribute more. Today Ana and I went out to lunch while little munchkin…
6 months marker and daycare!
It hit me today that we moved to Portland six months ago today! Wow! What a ride! It has happened so quickly! What have been surprising things? -The cost of living! Everything is almost double of what we were paying in Berlin. I didn’t expect such inflation when we arrived and still we are shocked…
Only Pink Panther will do
This week the temps here in the mornings are like 30 degrees or 0 in celsius! It is frozen on the ground but still we are surrounded by fall colors. So I bundle the little dude up in what was his Halloween costume but also the warmest and most cozy bear suit there is and…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Last night we joined the family for our Wednesday night Thanksgiving feast. Our family moved to a Wednesday night gathering years ago so that families could go to more family thanksgivings. So 19 of us gathered last night around a large table (and a kiddo table and a highchair) pieced together in my aunt’s living…
Where to begin again?
It is intimidating to return to a blog after being away for a bit. Things happen and seasons change and then a writer starts to wonder where to jump back in! Life has been a bit chaotic. There was another surgery in there and all happened as it should and my body is healing again….
Living in Violet 