Our Summer has come and gone and I am ready to settle back into home for the Autumn.
Andrew was busy with his field work in the surrounding mountains this Summer.
Here's where Andrew stayed for free when working in the Smokies...biologists have it made!
We were out town so often that a suitcase was always sitting half-packed.
I stopped making bread and barely cooked a meal...I don't know what we ate.
The garden grew and grew and became a tangle of vegetables and flowers. It was too dense and full of mosquitoes for me to tackle. I just let it go wild.
My Fall vegetable garden seems so tame compared to the Summer garden...the simplicity of uniform greens and occasional golds...kale, spinach, beets, lettuces, and collards.
Autumn is by far my favorite season. I love the colors and anticipation of what's to come, the order of a school day.
Ramona has started preschool five days a week. Her class includes children from Zimbabwe, Mexico, Pakistan, and India.
Astrid has started daycare twice a week, but prefers to stay with her family. She is a brave and busy little girl who loves bugs, painting, and books.
Ramona has been loving drawing, music, witches, playing with her good friends, and swimming.
Ramona, Astrid, and Andrew all go to school at the University and we've enjoyed biking the kids to school in the bike trailer, although Ramona's almost too big for it now.
Andrew is teaching a 200 student biology lecture and likes being Professor Laughlin. He's looking into PhD programs to research tracking of avian migratory patterns. He hopes to teach at a university when he finishes.
States we're considering moving to in the Fall are Oregon, New York, Mississippi, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and New Jersey, to name a few. I don't know where we'll end up!
I am working 2 or 3 days a week in Labor and Delivery at a small hospital near our house. After considering graduate programs in public health or midwifery, I'll decided to stick with L&D nursing for now.
I love the free time my schedule allows me to spend with the kids, garden, travel, hike, and bake.
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