Happy Birthday, Katriel!

| Stacy

We woke our beautiful 8 year old with a family sing-a-long.  We had cinnamon rolls for breakfast and a minimalist school day.

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She got a sweet package from her birthday buddy, Miss Pam.  She was blown away by the little kitty and the tag that said, “Handmade with Love.”

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Nan took her out for lunch, and Johanna and I frosted the cake with Lion Guard characters.

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Nan and Nene and Miss Barb joined us for dinner.  Katriel picked pizza.

Happy Birthday, Katriel!!

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Found treasures

| Stacy

While I was cleaning in the pantry, I found an old folder of art that the oldest three kids had done a long time ago.

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I wish I could get art classes for the younger kids. 

I wish we could get any classes for the younger kids.

Is this nonsense over YET?

A kitchen for Nan

| Stacy

Sometimes I have great ideas.

Sometimes I have okay ideas and make a giant mess before I fix it.

This is definitely the second one.

Stewart headed to Nan’s one morning and removed all Nan’s kitchen cupboard doors so that I could paint them white.

What should have taken 18-21 days took 153,244 days instead.  Nothing went smoothly.  But we finally finished and I will never stain in the wintertime again.

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This is what the cupboards looked like at Christmas.

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And this was afterward.

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Pretty nice!