The promised added pictures!

I am a terrible  photographer with an ancient camera, so I am slightly intimidated by the amazing photos most people use to blog.  I'm just here to show you a piece of our lives, which, as you can tell, largely revolves around Elisabeth.  These are just some recent classic moments in her life. 

Having purse and cellphone, will travel!

It made me smile to think that most of the moments captured involve reading. 

Grandpa Jackman and Aunt Carol stopped over before Christmas, and for the first time, E. really made up with Grandpa.  He was eating it up with a spoon, believe you me!

 One of E.'s first words was "Bible." (sounds more like "bubble.")  She has her own New Testament which she loves to carry around.  The other evening at a family gathering, a lot of kids were playing with a ball.  Being hopelessly outnumbered and helplessly small, E. hastened to her diaper bag to grab what was hers and hers alone.  Brandishing her sword, the Word of God, she advanced to the fray, preaching the Gospel. 

I was thankful to find her learning wisdom from this book a friend lent us.  Now, if only her mama could implement more of the principles, we would be well on our way!

 This has been a ritual since she started eating at the table.  Chris misses out on so many poignant moments in E.'s life, but she loves him dearly.

If I feel the urge from time to time, I may just add some things I'm learning about mothering and managing our home.  I so enjoy reading what others are writing online, and I'm amazed by the transparency many share from their hearts.  It's hard for me to go public with things that are terribly personal, particularly when I realize perfect strangers might read them.  But, then again, a stranger is apt to be more forgiving than someone who knows me well!

We'll see what happens!

Another quarterly installment!

I'm back to experimenting with this blog again.  I do that every few months or so!  It's especially important now that I gave out our new address to all our friends!  Below you will find some shots of our precious Elisabeth with her first ponytails.  Can you find them???? 

Late this fall we went fishing for the first time (officially---with our own rod) with Grandma Jackman.  I was anxious to try filleting for the first time.  Grandma caught lots of fish, and I caught all of one.  E. wasn't sure what to think of it all, but she gingerly touched a few of the fish.  I enjoyed filleting more than fishing.  It's taken me a long time to get to this point, but loving to eat fish as I do, I knew I needed to learn how to do the "dirty" work.

 And of course, cooking applesauce is always a necessary fall duty.  E. is turning into quite a mama's helper.  She spends very little time playing with her toys at this stage of her life.  Now it is most meaningful to her to spend time helping me with all my duties.  It is astonishing to me how she is catching on simply by watching.



I'm going to try to post more pictures very soon.  I think I'm learning the hang of how to do it on this old dinosaur computer.  Fortunately, I have discovered how to copy pictures straight to a CD, from which I can pick and choose on an online photo editor.  I don't like to bog down this poor machine with lots of pictures, much less a photo-editing program.  How thankful I am for highspeed internet.