Fall to Winter

It went from Fall warm and sunny weather to snowy, rainy and cold all within a month.  We do need the moisture, so I won't be mad.  It is a weird extreme though.  Our leaves haven't even fallen from the trees, and we had a giant snowstorm that took two large branches from our trees and a lot from Grandma and Grandpa Robertson's trees.  Evelyn and I stayed here to clean up our back yard and the rest of the family went to help Grandpa with their big branches.

Playing games with Rose and Jack.

Scripture study after a day of Seth being sick.  I think he had croup.  That was the closest I've ever gotten to taking a kid to the ER because of being sick.  We've taken Sam for his EOE and Grandma with her heart palpitations.  I think we've taken Dad twice in the last 17 years.  But he was wheezing so badly that I was afraid of not being able to hear him breath.  The first time we took his oxygen, it was at 68%.  Jer tried several times after and it wouldn't even read it.  Finally, after he'd been sitting in my lap for a while, Jer was able to get a reading in the 90%.  Jer was kind enough to sleep on the couch so that Seth could sleep sitting up next to me in bed.  (I love our adjustable base!)  I sat it most of the way up and he snuggled up next to me and slept.  He had a fever all night and I was up about ever hour checking on him, but he was right there.  When the morning came, he was so much better.

This is our table AFTER I asked Seth to clean up his stuff.  The backpack, 6 books, reading calendar, card game, blue folder and and Math workbook are all his.  He promised me that he'd cleaned up. "I do not think that means what you think it means."

Because Seth was sick, we cancelled HalloLan for friends and told my brothers not to come if they didn't want to be exposed. Both my brothers came, and we had a blast.

Evelyn's cute puppy dog.

Evelyn does acrobatics classes.  She's usually the support on the bottom doing all the lifts.  She loves that she's strong and that she's learned how to drop someone safely.  She's very careful and the kids love all her tricks.

Jer went out on the first snowy day of the year.  There was a pileup on State Street and a truck backed up into his car with the trailer hitch.  I laughed that it was the artist, Eric Dowdle.  I was joking that he'd probably pay for it in puzzles.  We do his puzzles with my mom all the time.  She'd take it.