Gatherings

Today is a peaceful day. We are home for the day with no plans because I have a virus and have not been feeling well. But it has been a good day. The kids are really quiet today too. Maybe we all needed a day off! I feel bad that Robin is [...]

Every Christmas Eve the kids get to open one present. This year it was the present from Robin’s parents. Here they are sporting their nerf guns and nerf “armor”!
We spent quite a bit of time making chocolate covered pretzels, marshmellows and strawberries. The smart idea I had [...]

Christmas has taken over at the Twombly household and let me tell ya’, it’s a beautiful thing! Yesterday Robin finished up our shopping, wonderful man that he is! At home we focused on making Christmas cards for our church friends. We also got all the Christmas goodies into the house for our next two days [...]

Is it a bad thing if the dog shows more interest in the school work than the kids do? Haha! Just kidding…
“Do you need some help with that Tyler?? I rock at Biology!! C’mon give me a chance!!”
“Coool…could you read that part about ‘carrier pigeons again?”
“Mom, could you [...]

Winter has officially arrived! So, at least now we have a good reason for all of this snow!! This first picture is the back of our house. Icicles anyone? This next one is the from the door of our sunroom out to the back deck. The snow was up onto the [...]

Yay! We FINALLY have the Christmas Tree!! The kids wanted to wait this year to put up the tree. They think it is harder to wait for Christmas when the tree it up! HUH? This was a good weekend to put it up. We had a blizzard so there [...]

Home Sweet Home after last night’s snowfall. The driveway and view across the street. Just beyond those trees is the lake.

Yes, it is snowing out! It’s dark too, but I decided to try a picture anyway. There doesn’t seem to be any doubt that we will have a white Christmas this year. I can’t believe that Christmas is only 12 days away!! YIKES! I need to finish up my Christmas shopping and get packages in [...]

I am thankful for:

Jesus, my Savior (This print is by Larry Weingartner. You can purchase it at www.allposters.com.)My hardworking husband.
My fun, happy kids.
Our little pup, Dash.

Our homeschool group offered an Art Class recently based on the book “Discovering Great Artists”. The teacher would read from the book about a famous artist and then the children would use a technique from the artist. This was such a fun class! Christian and Rachel were very excited to share their [...]