Reward night with Mama

| Stacy

Hanny was feeling scared at night.  Every night.  Of course we spoke words of reassurance, and we prayed with her.  And we shared scriptures.  But her fear was palpable and heart breaking.
We let her sleep with us one night (which is something that we never, ever, ever, ever do).  Ever.
Then she slept in her sisters’ room two nights.  It wasn’t a great sleep for the older two.
So I got the idea of making this sticker page.  Each night she went to bed and stayed in her room and went to sleep on her own, she’d get a sticker.  She was a CHAMP.  Twelve straight nights of not a peep!
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She chose Target for her date and snack.

 

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It was so fun.
(Um, yeah – she started being scared again right afterward.  To be continued.)

Brothers are wonderful

| Stacy

Hanny woke up with croup.
She and I had to miss church. 
Thankfully, we still have Stewart’s nebulizer and unexpired Albuterol. 
But it sure is boring sitting there for a treatment.
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Unless you have a big brother.

Corn maze day

| Stacy

We pass the farm market just about any time we go somewhere.
The season was coming to an end, so the kids asked if we could take a run over. 
The weekday schedule just did NOT have any room.  But Dad made time Saturday morning.
Good thing – as it was the last day of the season!  (hmmmmm – sounds familiar…. did the same thing last year!)

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Fall-ing

| Stacy

I’m no fan of fall.  Not at all.  It’s too close to winter and too far from summer.  But even a fall-Grinch like me had to acknowledge the sunrise was lovely this morning.  So a quick phone-photo was had. 

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Getting Saucy…

| Stacy

Our neighbors blessed us with apples. 
Lots of apples.
Nan came over and we got busy one morning.
We cut apples in quarters and cooked them in 1-2 inches of water.  After they softened a good deal we put them through the Squeezo.
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I started to run out of containers.  And I for sure ran out of freezer space.
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And when we were done, there were still this many left.  We’d only used about 2/3 of them. 
We found a home for the rest. 
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