Our week at a glance...

It was a bursting full week...all good. To kick it off Ceci's bunny Milkshake escaped. Adele and I went out to look at the bunnies one morning and noticed that the floor had fallen through Milkshake's (free) hutch. Milkshake was gone. Adele tore off to the house to sound the alarm and soon we were all searching the property for any sign of Milkshake...and hopefully not the remains of her! Tennie, a faithful believer in prayer, said a prayer the moment she heard the news. After about five minutes into the search Ceci sat down discouraged wondering aloud to Geoff how Heavenly Father could bring Milkshake back. Not 10 seconds after Ceci expressed her distress did Milkshake come hopping out of the back corner of the barn. Kipper saw her just as Geoff and Ceci did and chased her around until she was nice and hidden again, but we knew where she was. Geoff spent some time securing the hutch and Milkshake is safe again. All is well.

We celebrated my dad's birthday by eating hamburgers, chips, corn on the cob and soda (Orangina was the request this year) in his honor. A few weeks ago we all went to gelato in honor of my mom on her birthday (the girls love that their grandparent birthday celebrations!)

Tennie and Adele go to a homeschool co-op once a week, and this week they had a crazy hair day. Tennie hadn't finished her school work so she didn't make it, but Adele loved the idea. Ceci wore her hair a little crazy for our errands.


Tuesday Tennie and I had a day out by ourselves. This doesn't happen very often so it was a treat! We did a little shopping for some warm weather clothes, she got her annual short haircut, then we went to get her ears pierced. I don't mean to give that last bit "in passing" because it was a long-awaited event! Geoff would love the girls to stay pierce-less forever, but we agreed that on their tenth birthday they could choose to pierce or not to pierce. They have all chosen and are simply waiting for their own big day. Tennie was brave, excited, and looked for mirrors whenever possible. Her sisters have been pinching their ears to build up necessary pain tolerance, and they've put stickers on their lobes to get Tennie's look.

Waiting for the pierce...

Ta da!

St. Patrick's Day wasn't much more than all of us wearing green, and a green breakfast. Good thing, too, because that is about as much attention as I want to give the holiday.

We've been working on expressing and demonstrating love in our family the past few weeks. One activity to encourage love was making some little "warm fuzzies". The girls then ran through the house doing little acts of kindness and love, leaving a little warm fuzzy to let others know a kindness was shown.





They were everywhere (and still are). It worked, but the maintenance of love is going to take more than gimmicky games. We're making progress slowly but surely.

We've been up to our ears in Willy Wonka songs and lines, costumes and hair. More on that later.