Gifts from a week home

- Lazy summer days

- Helping to make Adrianna's love list (here)
- Making hummus with Scott for his "dip day" at work
- Adrianna checking out our toys from a Crested Butte yard sale
 - Adrianna building a craft with marshmallows
- Taking Abel to ride "Grandpa's ATV!" again
- Adrianna helping Grandma water
- Abel's insistence that there should be another ATV ride
- Abel's adorable dinner protest
- Adrianna's mosaic creature
- Abel trying out Adrianna's hair bow
- Finding Abel and Adrianna working together at the desk
- Hearing bounces and giggles, and discovering Abel getting the ball to bounce around the hallway
- The ease of putting away clean boys' clothes
- Finding a sleeping boy who threw off all of the bed adornments
- "Work time" at the dining table
- Abel helping me make sun tea
- Finding Adrianna at work
- Abel playing with beans while I attempted a new recipe
- Making dairy-free, gluten-free coffee cake with white beans -- yummy!  (www.nourishingmeals.com recipe)
- Adrianna feeling sad when she ran out of time to finish her mini-book on the "Star Spangled Banner"
- The comedy of three dogs at meal time, when one finishes later than the other two
- The beauty of a smoky sunset
- Having dinner with our new neighbors

- Abel running to me after our neighbors left, and exclaiming, "Mommy, fun."

- Finding goat yogurt on clearance at the grocery store, and adding blueberries to it to freeze for easy Adrianna snacks/meals
- Kids playing in the wading pool with play group

- Celebrating another play group birthday

- Special cups for sipping iced tea on hot summer days
- Adrianna showing Abel where Ethiopia is on the map
- Adrianna and Abel helping me make dinner
- Watching Chicka Chicka, Boom Boom video clips with Abel
- Abel's new-found talent of listing things he's thankful for; this man of few words gets on a roll and keeps going!  "Grandpa's ATV, water, Anna, Bible study..."

- Adrianna making "cell phones" for everyone in the family

- My new kind of grocery list, with things quinoa flakes and sorghum flour

Comments

Bloom Where You Are Planted said…
Another beautiful list!

Sounds like your days have gone really well as you settle back in again now that you're home...I wish so much that we were also your neighbors since our days lately have not gone quite as beautifully!

Again, thanks for sharing!
July 15, 2011 at 11:20 AM
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