Spring break found us heading to Michigan, where the girls hung out with Grandma for a few days while I stayed with Mariel and met up with Bethany and Keith for a Jane Austen CCA at Hillsdale! It was great to be back on campus and so great to have a couple days off from […]
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Posted in Friends, Indiana on Sep 19th, 2020
We’re just four and a half hours away from South Bend now, which means that when Derek found out this week he could get tickets to the ND game this weekend, we made a spur of the moment decision to drive over for Saturday! The boys dropped us girls off at the Romines’ new house, […]
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Posted in Indiana on Apr 18th, 2020
So our last big get-together with friends was Janie’s birth-tea party, a month ago. We’d been slowly staying in for about a week before that, though. All in all, things have gone better than expected–and since Derek’s job is secure and we don’t have any loved ones hospitalized with the virus, the pandemic has mainly […]
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Posted in Friends, Indiana on Feb 4th, 2020
The weather broke (temporarily) yesterday, and the above-50 temperatures sent us and many of our neighbors outside. Annie walked around the block (the longest distance she’s walked since Malibu), and the girls discovered that our neighbors two doors down are a classical Christian homeschooling family with four kids (who love baking, crafting, and reading)! Everyone […]
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