Monthly Archives Nov 2004
Happy Thanksgiving & Happy Birthday
November 26, 2004
Today we celebrated Brienne's birthday and Thanksgiving. For the 2nd year we gathered with Jack & Wendy's family. For those of you who don't know, Jack and Wendy are very good friends of ours, who are surrogate parents and grandparents to our family. We met them through our church about ...
Vegetables for true beauty
November 22, 2004
Today Celine wanted to dress up like a ballerina. So she got on her tights, bodysuit and tutu. Then she wanted to wear pink lipstick. The last touch was to pull her hair up in a ponytail with ribbons. While I was combing her hair I was talking to her ...
Maine culture
November 15, 2004
Even though we live in a relatively rural area of Maine we have many cultural gems in our backyard. Last night I got to experience 2 of them. Buckfield is a little town about 20 minutes away from us that seems like it's in the middle of nowhere. Several years ...
Computer hassles
November 13, 2004
I haven't been as active on the website this past week because I lost my computer. THe computer I've been using actually belonged to Damien's employer and they needed it back this past week. I'm using Damien's laptop right now. But I can only use it during the evening and ...
Bread baking
November 4, 2004
Well, I've started baking bread again. After about 1 year of taking a break I was anxious to try again. For awhile Brienne was sensitive to wheat and it was no fun to bake bread and then only eat it when she was sleeping or not in the room. This ...
Election Day results
November 2, 2004
Today the kids and I had our own election. Although we don't watch TV the kids have picked up that "something" is going on, inspite the fact we haven't talked about it too much because as non-citizens we we can't vote. But the kids have seen all the posters on ...
Halloween
November 1, 2004
We had a great time tonight. This was our second halloween in our neighborhood and the second year we had our good friend's Landry's over to celebrate with us. Firstly, we all enjoyed pizza late in the afternoon. Then everyone went trick or treating and Damien and I took turns ...
