I wonder when I will get this from my kids.

I don't know that I spoil the grandchildren.
With the term spoiling comes the connotation
that they are getting something that is not particularly good for them.
I like to think that the attention or care they get from me
is just what they need.

I know it is what I need.
Each of them is dearly loved by both Martin and I.
And I always treasure any time I can spend with them.

pants on the ground pants on the ground looking like a fool with your pants on the ground

another case of a picture being worth a thousand words

actually, not as much a picture, as a cartoon

but there are definitely better ways 

that a thousand words can be wasted

(or is it waisted) 

 but I won't bother wasting mine on the subject

that is not my object...tive

Year of Jubilee

Last Saturday I turned 50. I ended up the the Old Fart Jar.
A dubious honour indeed.

We ate dinner at the Sirloin Cellar in downtown Hamilton.

We were joined by my parents and Theo and Tena. Rick and Wendy came a little later with a nice couple who they were scheduled to have dinner with, but instead, dragged them along to my birthday dinner. Bill and Pam Farrel authors (of over 30 books) and speakers on marriage.

I told Pam about wanting to write a book and she told me that since it is my fiftieth year that I could look at it as my year of Jubilee. The year of Jubilee is a biblical term regarding a year of rest or a celebration. Pam told me to actually take time to write.

A tall order indeed. Blogging is about all the writing I have been doing lately and I am terribly sporadic at best. Doing the housework and the business bookkeeping as well as teaching Home with a Heart and also leading a bible study group for women at church all take up plenty of the hours in my day. And there are a couple of cute little babies are taking up a good chunk of my time -

 Ethan and Moriah at Grandma's house

but I wouldn't miss it for the world. And that time cannot be lived again.
Only time will tell just how Jubilee-ish this year will be.

the hiccups

Ethan has the hiccups and it seems to be scaring him.

it's so nice to have them home

 This is Moriah

and below is her brother Ethan

They came home from the NICU last week and are settling in well. Anne stays busy with feeding them but they are growing at a good pace.

I am able to be there most days for a feed or two and try to be generally helpful.

Once I hung a load of washed clothes on the line and hung the socks up all matched into a state of pair-ed-ness. This idea was at first met with some mock-erage then it was conceded that it made the matching of the aforementioned socks much easier when they were hung on the line that way.

Sometimes the old broad knows what she's doin'