Evening

Ok, I promise this is the last photo for tonight.

Sarah Makes Dinner Rolls

More Ornaments

A Spherical Reflection

Two Turtle Doves

A post for the sake of posting

Here's your blog post my Dear Overly Fun H- Person. :)

My dress that I will wear when we go to Washington DC in January is basically finished; I only need to finish sewing the bodice lining onto the gown. It turned out better than I expected, especially since this was the first time I have worked with any fabric other than cotton. Anyways, that is about the only new thing around here.

Perhaps I'll have something more interesting to say after we go ice skating on the pond this afternoon......

Please?

Oh, please?
Please let the ice melt overnight so we can get down to church tomorrow. The roads are still pretty awful, and whatever snow melted today will now freeze all over the road and then we won't be able to get down to South Bend. Missing a whole two Divine Services would be awful. :(

I forgot my library book was due today. Oh yay. Hopefully it won't matter so much if Dad can drop it off on his way to work in the morning. I still need to check out Snow Goose, but I guess I'll just have to do that some other time. Perhaps I can do that when Mom and I go to get my books for the college classes.

Sarah will be leaving in only about a week. :( Then we won't see her till maybe after Easter. That will be a long time. :( Her cell phone (Verizon) doesn't work in Canada, so now I get to keep her cell phone so that I will be able to call Mom if I need help at college. Also I can take it when I go biking, since Mom and Dad finally agreed to let me bike by myself now that Sarah is gone.

There are lots of owls outside this week. Last night there was one really close to our house. It is fun to take a walk in the dark and then get scared by silly owls or coyotes. As long as someone is with me, it isn't that scary, but for some odd reason, even though they aren't dangerous, I still can't get myself to go in the woods on my own when it is dark. Perhaps if I had a strong tall body guard with a long sword I would venture out after dark. :P

Matt is pretty happy with the stack of WWII documentary videos that he got for Christmas. They are interesting, but so very sad and... and..... just awful. It isn't some made up stage dramatization, this is actual footage; real men being killed; real ships sinking; real planes falling into the ocean; real sweethearts grieving. I almost can't watch it without getting sick. Oh Father, how could men do such horrible things to their fellow creatures?

Pie Day

Sarah and I worked in the kitchen all day. It is amazing how many dishes get generated when we are cooking. Sarah made apple turnovers, apple pie, and dinner rolls. I made pecan pie, pumpkin pie, custard pie (my first atempt), and cherry pie. I, um, burnt Sarah's dinner rolls. She really aught not have trusted me to keep track of the time they were suposed to bake. : ( Poor Sarah.

Snow Fort Photo

Now that I got the photos finally downloaded, I can show you how high we got our snow fort last week. Sadly, it completely melted the day after we fixed it.

Please, Come Back Time

Time has utterly gotten away. I was hoping that life would slow down during Advent, especially since school has ended, but instead life has gotten even more chaotic. I can't believe it is almost Christmas. I would like to stop and catch my breath for a moment, but in only about twelve days Sarah will be leaving, unless Augustine College calls and says it won't work. I will be starting my college classes the day after Sarah would start at Augustine. I don't even know what books I need, and Mom and Dad might not even be there when I start and I might have to try to get a ride with one of Sarah's friends that is attending there. It is so scary not to know for sure what is going to be happening in the next two weeks. Dad and Mom have been so busy that they haven't put things on the calendar so I have absolutely no clue what is happening even tomorrow. Maybe after Sarah finally knows for sure what college she will attending this semester, life will once again establish a routine. Uncertainty always makes me panic, but I shall just have to deal with it, cause I will never have everything completely sure all the time.

Also, now that the winter solstice is over, it should start staying lighter later. I don't remember being so depressed by the early darkness in past winters, but I really can't wait until the sun sets at eight o'clock instead of at five.

Yes, I do know that my paragraphs are not well constructed, but oh well.