Day before Thanksgiving...

and all through the house the children are running and creating a rouse.


The sun is shining, I have pumpkin cranberry bread in the oven and stuff on the table waiting to make my Pumpkin layer cheesecake. There are yummy smells of cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and pumpkin.

Picture of me.

This is a picture of me on my 40th birthday. (I think) Paula over at On A Rainy Night challenged us to post a picture of ourselves.

Rainy days and nights...

It rained really hard last night. I hope we don't get water backed up into our basement (again). I guess that's what you get having a basement in the Willamette Valley.

Today is my brother and sister's (not twins) birthday. He's 42 and she's 38. Wow, seems just like yesterday we were walking through the snow to the school bus stop.

Today's lesson . . .

How to wash dishes by hand. Haven't done that in years. Our dishwasher quit running yesterday so we will use this as a 'teachable moment'.

Our middle daughter just turned 10 last Saturday. I'm still trying to recover from the sleepover! I'm just not as young as I used to be.