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Tuesday, 10 November 2009

Sweet Sisters

Here: my two littlest sisters -
sweet, lively, smart, tender,
and just plain fun to be around.

I love them.

-cfh

Tuesday, 20 October 2009

Ipsen Boys

I'm nannying again! and so happy to get to spend one morning a week with the some of the
cutest kids on the planet! (I don't know if 9-year-old Leo would appreciate me saying that.)

Oscar at his "schoolwork"

Oscar Grant

older bro Hugh goofing off as usual

Hugh Chandler

Leo Eiric

I get to help home-school them and it is SOOOO much fun!

---Christina

Wednesday, 07 October 2009

Papa and Rebecca

Tonight, after devotions together. (Papa had returned, tired, from a Civil Air
Patrol meeting, and Rebecca was too tired to stay conscious through prayers.)

- CFH

Saturday, 03 October 2009

Storybook Lodge Sept 17-20, 2009

From my journal entry up at Storybook Lodge:
Saturday, September 19, 2009

"It is glorious. It is infinitely elating and satisfying to behold the Spirit of God. He is among man - among the believers. I, and we all as a body, just witnessed 11 souls follow Christ in baptism! We gathered around the lake and pastor and Papa (Papa at first and then other deacons and fathers) were in the water with those being baptized. The souls: Joshua Abercrombie, my brother Jonathan, Michele Nadeau, Mac and Simon Bergman, Jenae Connolly, Joseph and Dina Glerum, Mike (Amico's husband), Tessa Alzen, and Tommy Bruggenthies. The sun illuminated the water. I held little Ethan Sands as I watched the blessed scene with tears in my eyes and more drying on my cheeks. A soft breeze, like the Spirit Himself, breathed on us and we could feel God's presence."

It made me long for more converts.

the multitude of witnesses

my dear little brother Jonathan, sincere in his faith

Michele Nadeau

Tommy and Mr. Bruggenthies

Tessa and Mr. Alzen

Jenae Connolly

It was Pastor's birthday, and he was nearly baptized as well. ;)

Early morning canoeing (Jessimine and me)

Steve and Olivia Dueck

Seth and Lucas

Group games - Daniel is on crutches due to a toothpick injury he incurred the previous day (Friday).
Half of a toothpick punctured his leg (near his knee) and lodged there. Papa took him to the ER and a former
army surgeon (who served in Iraq) literally dug around in Daniel's leg...but never found the toothpick.
So they stitched him up and sent him off. He's doing alright now, but is sore and still limps a bit.

Heidi Johnson, who is so kind to have captured and shared with us all these photos (we forgot
our camera of all things), made the trip there and back with us. On the way home we
stopped and met up with Ted and Sarah (and family) to have dessert together. ICE CREAM!

- CFH
Thanks Heidi!
Trauma O'er a Wasp (accompanied by a Stink Bug)

Beware the Jessimine with the can...

...all in class Insecta are advised to stay clear...

...of this fear-frozen face.

Jessie's two victims were a wasp and a lethargic stink bug. I went upstairs during the situation
and found her completely on edge, jumping around the room every other second thinking of the wasp
that had escaped behind a pane of glass. Having myself been just as ridiculously irrational in the past,
I teased her only a little. The stink bug was also gracing the window until I employed a Kleenex-capture
of it. Then Jessie, a brave soul afterall, proceeded to open the inner window and drown the
ill-fated wasp in raid (or rather an equivalent thereof).

And like all good homeschooling families, we took advantage of the situation
and now have an intact (despite the chemical bath) specimen for study.

- CFH