River-Tube Train

This past Sun­day, the weather gave us the per­fect excuse to take a dip in the river. Here, Danika has made a “tubie train” to pull her brother around in the river.

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My Little Nifty Knitter and Young Padawan

Danika is thor­oughly enjoy­ing learn­ing the ancient art of knit­ting since get­ting her first set of knit­ting needles.

Young Lego Mas­ter Builder Bre­an­don is also delight­ing in a recent pur­chase of some lego build­ing sets; the force is strong with this one!!

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Raspberry Returneth

A lit­tle over a month ago, while in the throes of what felt like the flu, my son appar­ently thought it would be hilar­i­ous to run off with my “new to me” cell phone¹ and then for­get where he left it. I had almost given up the search after about the sev­enth time I had turned our house upside down look­ing for it. Just this morn­ing, I remem­bered our couch has a nifty lit­tle spot where remotes and other valu­ables can be sucked into the depths of its nether regions. After turn­ing the couch on its side and remov­ing a few uphol­stery sta­ples, I peered into the dust cover panel under­neath– lo and behold, there was my phone. I am very relieved I don’t have go through the whole lost phone process with our phone com­pany although it was the per­fect excuse to upgrade to an iPhone for my upcom­ing birth­day. –wink–

Although, I don’t often apol­o­gize for my long absences from blog­ging, I would like to men­tion why I have been so busy recently. Over the last two months, after I finally decided to dis­con­tinue home­school­ing my youngest child, I have had many oppor­tu­ni­ties to free­lance for one of my local news­pa­pers, the Watauga Demo­c­rat. Not every shot I have sub­mit­ted has been pub­lished but I am learn­ing a tremen­dous amount about pho­to­jour­nal­ism and have been get­ting more requests for pho­tos each week. I hope I con­tinue to stay this busy– although hav­ing a lit­tle more time for blog­ging would be nice.

1. a black­berry pearl, I nick­named “the rasp­berry” [↩]

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