Anyway, it’s that time in the semester again when everything starts getting busy. I have a bunch of papers, competencies, and finals coming up and all I can think about is how nice it is outside. Summer is finally here and I want to just throw some meat on the grill, sit back and relax. That’s what Saturday evenings are for. Except for here in Cleveland. We had a beautiful week with plenty of sun every day-except for Saturday. On Saturday it snowed. I tell you, it is a cruel world we live in.
I am sitting here writing this with a box of E.L.Fudge cookies on my lap. These elf cookies somehow have the magical ability to take a rotten situation and make it better again. Thank goodness for that.
…Never mind- I just read the nutrition facts. I tell you, it is a cruel world we live in.
Our big news this week is actually about this blog that we have been keeping up. As many of you know, every year we print out all of our blog posts and we send all of the pictures to Wal-Mart to get printed and we put it all together in a big 3” binder to have a hard copy of The Hazard Chronicles. It is quite the project and we usually don’t finish until about April. It’s worth it though, because we will have these books forever.
Or will we? How long can we really expect a book to last that consists of loose-leaf paper and pictures all thrown together in a binder? I guess it could survive for some time if we (or our kids, or any one else) never look at it. But that would totally defeat the purpose.
Thinking about this dilemma, we came up with a brilliant solution. We ran into this site on the internet called U-build-a-book. The name pretty much says it all. We used their free software to make a digital layout of The Hazard Chronicles and then sent it for publishing. This week we received in the mail our very own 200 page hard-bound copy of our documented lives for this past year. It looks great and this is something that will stand the test of time. The best part? The whole thing actually costs less than it would to print all the pictures and buy sheet protectors and supplies and go through all the trouble of putting it together ourselves.
We totally recommend u-build-a-book to anyone and we are already putting together books of past years so we can have them match our new standards of quality. And it is so fun to go back and see it in print and read it. It’s sort of like getting a yearbook at the end of a good year of high school and remembering all the fun times you had. We will treasure these books for a long time.
Evelyn’s big news is that she is learning the letters. Rachel has started to do “letter days” with Eva, where each day of the week is centered on a specific letter. This week she learned E, D, and S. She recognizes capital and lower-case letters and knows their sounds and can give you a couple of words that start with that sound. It is so cute to watch her pouring through books and pointing out all of the ees, dees, and esses (these letter words, by the way, are great for scrabble). We even think that she has started to try her hand at writing the letters. The other day she drew 7 or 8 shapes that could be loosely interpreted as lower-case ees and she kept pointing to them and saying e-e-e-elbow!
Jack’s big news is that he went to the dermatologist. We didn’t really learn anything new. He gave us a prescription for the same stuff we’ve already been using. That wasn’t very helpful.
And finally, Addy’s big news is that she has learned the art of happiness. She has become our little giggle girl and it is so cute.
Here is our book for last year.
Jack is a great dancer- and he is growing some hair! Such a cute boy.
I like that you encourage such good dental hygiene. Of course, I would expect nothing less of a future dentist's child...
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