Hot Chocolate & Onion Rings

Well we headed to that indoor Farmer's Market I wrote about last time...the one that is supposed to be on the second weekend of October... Did you catch that? Second weekend. Oops, Shaun, this is the first weekend. But we did have a nice time seeing the trees with lots of fall colors. What was extra fun was that last night we had something like an ice storm, which froze water on the car, power lines and the trees. So not only did we have green, yellow and red trees to look at, we had silvery frozen ones too, and all mixed together!

We are almost done with our first 'Little House' book with Stephen.

To celebrate, we had an excellent, spoiling snack of onion rings and hot chocolate by kerosene lamp. Since it's an overcast day, Stephen got to see the lamp in twilight. He said, 'Oh, the light is sooo beautiful!' :0)

Stephen decided to hide behind me (and it looks like we are a commercial for Hunt's Ketchup)



 

Yesterday, Auntie and Stephen made the most amazing robot out of a kleenex box and 2 paper towel rolls. Her creativity astounds me. Stephen loves it, named it Skeeter after his stuffed frog Tante Crystal gave him, and accidentally broke his legs (the robot's, that is) while Skeeter danced at dinner.

 

As I'm sure you on the edge of your seat wondering what book will those 3 crazy people read next? after a vote, we decided on Little Town on the Prarie. It comes after the Long Winter and details early settlement life in De Smet, South Dakota. We've had alot of educational opportunities while reading this series already (as I'm sure you're aware of), and Stephen is hopeful that one day we may visit South Dakota ("where Mt Rushmore is and where Laura, Ma, Pa, Carrie, Mary and Grace lived!" [and yes, he quotes them all everytime we read the books]).

 

A reminder from St Augustine:

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.