At last, indoor projects are getting completed. We finally got the master bedroom all put together, and I’d like to share the final product with you. A while back I mentioned purchasing new bedding for our bedroom, but I didn’t want to reveal it until I added a few other details to the room such [...]

Keeping up with his determination to be self-sufficient, Mike will continue to do some gardening this summer. He thought it would also be fun to try some indoor, container gardening. We now have in our possession in the “craft” room a couple of planters with growing lettuce and tomato plants. The tomatoes will eventually be [...]

I don’t have these, fearless children that is. Tomorrow the girls will start taking swim lessons, and I wish they will get over some of those fears they have about getting water above their shoulders. Whenever we would make the girls go underwater you would think we were trying to drown them. I’m really hoping [...]

It was back up to Minnesota this weekend. An old family friend was to be married on Valentine’s Day, and we were invited to witness the event. When I first met Mike he was living with a family that he grew up with at church, the Larsons. They were kind enough to open their home [...]

Apparently, it’s always been a dream of Mike’s to be an official member of the Polar Bear Club. Well, he got his chance on Saturday. They have an annual Polar Bear Plunge on base, and Mike and a few of his Navy buddies decided to give it a try. Fortunately, the outside temperature was a [...]