down by the river: November 2007

Saturday, November 24, 2007

thanksgiving 2007

we spent thanksgiving at Aunt Sandra and Uncle Raymond's house
Nanny was there along with Maggie and James and the girls

Aunt Sandra

this is the second stray animal we have fostered
since moving to ste gen
ni has some sort of magnetic field around her that attracts strays
first was gizmo the kitten,
now it's a sweet blue heeler mix puppy that we have named

"Richard"
ni spotted richard while playing in the corn field
down from our house
we have put an ad in the paper
so hopefully the owner will claim this sweet guy soon
if no one claims him, he will be open for adoption

four generations

last weekend my mom brought nanny up to visit for the day
we had fun walking around town and visiting the antique shops

finn with his great grandmother

Thursday, November 1, 2007

eve of all saints day

these are ni's pumpkins
she wanted to go whimsy with them

by cutting the bottom so that they would tilt up
making them look as if they were laughing

the peach colored one was so bizarre
it smelled like a wonderful fresh melon
and had all of these crystals in it

so here's the story with the mummy...
The church encourages us to dress the kids up in the theme of all saints day, by picking a saint or biblical character. Since Finn has been into mummies lately, i thought that Lazarus would be a perfect character. So i told him the story of Lazarus and he was really moved by it. A few days later we were in the store and out of the blue he said, "Mom, did Jesus really cry?"
I said, "yes, the strongest man that ever lived...cried"
The kid got tears in his eyes! and he told me that he didn't want to be Lazarus, he just wanted to be a mummy. (I'm thinking that he didn't want to make Jesus cry...seriously, he's so sensitive)

here's my mummy