My daughter brought home Ender’s Game from the school library without me mentioning it previously. Total win.
Unfortunately the book is rather violent and filled with expletives.
My daughter brought home Ender’s Game from the school library without me mentioning it previously. Total win.
Unfortunately the book is rather violent and filled with expletives.

After assembling Anne’s new bed I had two rather large boxes. Hmm, what to do with two large boxes. A fortress of course! But that took only one box. A tunnel with portcullis! Still 1/2 a box left… Ok, knee padding in the tunnel.
Here are some memorable quotes by Anne. You have to imagine them in her cute, innocent voice.
After Eugene listed off the abundance of what he ate the previous night, Anne says, “next time, eat less.”
After exiting the Sangrada Familia (the famous one that is still under construction) Anne blurts out “that church needs surgery”.
Finally, with respect to eating habits, Anne wisely acknowledges that “If you have icecream every night it is not good for you. It has to go in a pattern: night, no night, night, no night, icecream, no icecream”.
Edit: Spain images are up now.
Here is the run down for the past couple months:
So, hopefully Camille will post here soon to give everyone an update on some of the other important things going on in our lives.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We are now all settled in Maryland. I drove up to Ithaca and brought Camille and the kids back down at the end of October. I am so glad we are all together again. I’ll try to have Camille give a larger update about how things are soon.
We drove back up to Ithaca for Christmas and New Years. It was good to see my parents again, and all our NewLife friends. We managed to get some good fossil hunting in as well, as the temperatures were not ‘normal’. Anne and Drew are becoming good hunters, with Anne scoring a few trilobites herself at the Portland Point quarry.
Today, being MLKJ Day, I had the day off. Woohoo! Being in the DC area is great! It was a normal temperature for January 15th, 72F with a 50 percent chance for rain. So we made the best of it and went to the Chesapeake to hunt for Miocene fossils. We managed to score a small amount of fossilized shark and skate teeth. It was warm enough for me to put on my Tevas and walk around in the water to better hunt. Pretty fun! Plus, having Drew periodically say, “Shark eat me” was great.
I think it’s safe to say that Anne can be a little competitive at times.
Anne was asking a lot of questions about Good Friday and the things that happened to Jesus on that day. She got more and more solemn and quiet and finally said, “Why do we call it GOOD Friday? It doesn’t sound like anything good happens.” Tried explaining Easter from a long term perspective. She didn’t buy it. Her conclusion: Call it Bad Friday and Happy Easter Sunday. Good enough for me. Happy Bad Friday everyone.
Have you ever felt like you were halfway in reality and then watching it in a surreal way from somewhere outside your body? I have them all the time–when I’m reading stories to Anne.