Author Archives: Sonja

About Sonja

I am a wife, a mom, a homeschooler, a Christian, a scrapbooker, a cook, a baker, a reader, and a thinker. I am many other things, too, that are not so easily defined. Right now, God has been calling me to be faithful in what He has given me to do – to be the best wife, mom, homeschooler, friend, etc. that I can be. In essence, He has told me to “bloom where I’m planted”.

Update

Hopefully this won’t be too long a post. (ha ha ha ha) Since I haven’t posted in a while, I thought I would. A lot of things have been happening, I just didn’t take time to post. First of all, … Continue reading

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Soup!

I made soup today!! For the very first time, I made soup. Not soup from a can, homemade soup!! Everyone liked it. There are even leftovers for tomorrow. 🙂 Here’s the recipe (it is good for when you have a … Continue reading

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Romeo & Juliet – a 21st century rendition

Y.P.R.: The Most Excellent and Lamentable Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet, Told Entirely in Emoticons

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Saturday

Today was a good day, even though it started out bad. Jef didn’t sleep at all last night (he gets insomnia sometimes – it is really annoying), so I woke up kind of early this morning. I was hoping to … Continue reading

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Eventful Week

God is good. 🙂 I knew that already, but this week reinforced it. Tuesday I took Nicholas & Daniel to the doctor. Nicholas was going in for his 3 year well-child check up and Daniel was going in because he’s … Continue reading

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Daniel’s first joke

Tonight Daniel made up his very first real joke. It is a take off from this joke – Knock! Knock!Who’s there?Interrupting cowInterrup (MOO!) that was the original joke. Here’s Daniel’s ~ Knock! Knock!Who’s there?Ignoring cow.Ignoring cow who?………………………… (silence) Isn’t that … Continue reading

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Here’s another one. You can see his front a bit better in this one. We’ll take more pictures tomorrow. :o) 11/6/05

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Nicholas in his new Spiderman outfit. Sorry the picture is so grainy. Our video camera doesn’t like night-time lighting. 11/6/05

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Not a very clear picture, I apologize. This is Nicholas, sitting very nicely, holding one of the puzzles from Grandma, wearing his new Spiderman outfit from Granny & Grandfather, and his new Elmo & Cookie Monster shoes from Aunt Tina … Continue reading

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Day of Posts

Today is just a day of posts!Tina & I went to return the Elmo & Cookie Monster shoes this afternoon. The size nines didn’t fit. We went to Target, and I figured I would see if they had anything I … Continue reading

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