Entering Week Two of our Hergenrader Summer Trip and the kids are exhausted. But not subdued. There are still toads to catch, fish to scare, tubing to do, waterskiing to learn, and relaxing to accomplish. And the twenty-hour drive to do… We’re still negotiating if Catie if a toad will be our eighth passenger. Maddie...Continue Reading
– Posted using BlogPress from my iPhoneThe Hergenrader family has hit the road. Sam, Ellie, and Nate are clearly having no trouble with sleeping on the road.As soon as I can pull some of the other hundreds of pictures from my regular camera to show you everything we’ve been up to, this is all I’ve...Continue Reading
This past weekend, our family picked blueberries at a farm near Houston. Perfect summer activity…except for the three-digit temps (evidenced by Ellie’s face). If the worst part of the day was the heat, the best part was Nate’s reaction to seeing his favorite food surrounding him by literally growing on trees. Which is a little...Continue Reading
This week is flying by with the insanity of our church’s VBS (which is at night). We seem to spend the days getting ready for that and the nights up way too late attending it. I’ve wanted to post this cute picture since last week. But, with the craziness of three birthdays in two days,...Continue Reading
We’ve reached that difficult impasse where Nate and I have a difference of opinion. He wants to crawl up the steps. And I don’t want him to tumble down more than a dozen hard wood stairs onto even harder tile. So, like his three older siblings before him, he waits for his chance. And when...Continue Reading
For the record, Sam is not actually celebrating his birthday with a glass of poolside champagne. But it’s not like I didn’t consider it. Whoever thought that celebrating kids’ birthdays (me) was a good thing, should have been at the Hergenrader house yesterday. Is it just my children, or does the idea of “Today’s your...Continue Reading
Looking at this picture, when the twins were just about Nate’s age, brings back so many memories. I can recall every detail of that day. Totally kidding. I remember almost nothing from this era. The busy-ness, of course, stole the luxury of reflection. The sheer work of having three kids in three years robbed me...Continue Reading
We’ve turned a corner. The help has left. The kids have embraced summer. And I feel better. Mostly the Cog Fog–the debilitating brain haze–has lifted. And Sam is still silly.Continue Reading
Saturday morning OFFICIALLY kicked off birthday party season with Sam and Ellie and sixteen of their closest friends. The little bugs and butterflies who flew and crawled down to Orange Leaf had their fill of frozen yogurt, crafts, tattoos, face painting, and cake. Ellie was the hostess with the mostess welcoming everyone, thanking them and...Continue Reading
Such a happy picture after such a busy week. Here’s Ellie eating the crazy concoction snack that I imagined a couple years ago. She’s happy, no doubt, because of the triple-digit grams of sugar in these Little Lights. God bless the VBS workers who dealt with 400 hyped-up campers. And now VBS and the busy...Continue Reading