Silas Lolek turned two last weekend. We were traveling at the time so we waited until this week to celebrate. The girls thought it was horribly unfair …
my children
Daisy Days
The cicadas have gotten so loud it seems unreal. It will be strange when their songs fade. A friend told me the story of a year when her dad used a …
Eleven
In the midst of all the illness, we celebrated Gabriel's eleventh birthday! I was so worried that we would all be sick on his birthday, but it …
A Rosebud for Larkspur
Two days after visiting the E.R. with Beatrix for her head wound, she and Silas became ill with a stomach virus. It seemed to run it's course in …



