Everyone has fallen into routine and the kids are doing fantastic. In fact, I don't think they remember their parents at all! (just kidding). Norah smiles her little twinkle-eyed smile so easily, and does a little jig-skip with one foot in front of the other. She repeats almost every phrase she hears and mimes action done by others, and of recent is speaking three word sentences with relish. Jay does his homework without complaint and expresses his love for his sisters. Grace has the portable DVD player mastered and loves to tease and play hide-n-seek. She has quite a vocabulary for her age. Yesterday she showed up wearing her cowboy hat like it was part of her head. She is learning to do the Hokey Pokey (just part of the corruption going on while the parents are gone). Grace just walked by and I said I need my hug this morning. She replied, "Uh Un" and stayed out of reach. What she really wanted was for me to chase her to steal a hug, but I have the computer on my lap. The two girls are most adorable about 8:30 AM with their hair just done and fresh to take on the day. Morning routine is to follow Gamma into the powder room and beg for a little makeup themselves.
35 degrees here this morning with frost but not a cloud in the sky.
A bit of wanderlust combined with a garage full of cool things. Beginning in April 2010 follow our cabin build history and other adventures in remote Gustavus, Alaska
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"Most of us live a cautious life on the principle of safety first; but to live the Christian life there is necessary a certain reckless willingness to adventure. If faith can see every step of the way, it is not really faith."
Wm. Barclay
“Few frontiers would have been settled without that special breed of women who have always followed the footsteps of their wandering husbands.” Wayne Short, from “The Cheechakoes”
"Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing."
Helen Keller
"...not all those who wander are lost"
J.R.R. Tolkien
"Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do. So, throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."
Samuel Clemens
"Truth is the cry of many but the game of few." --George Berkeley
"I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is."
Albert Camus
God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. "Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do" "Hold fast to dreams for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Gian Carlo Menotti
Langston Hughes
About Me
- Mel (AKA Dad, Papa Mel, Grampa)
- Not retired, just tired. Married 44 years. Viet Nam Vet (1st Cavalry Division). Enjoying life!
1 comment:
thanks for posting. i've been thinking of you guys everyday. sounds like it's going well. give the kids a hug and a kiss from me!
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