We enjoyed hearing her stories and a snack of doughnuts (YUM). We wish we lived closer so we could visit more often, but we feel so blessed for Chiara to have met such a neat lady.
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Family: link to our past, bridge to our future
We had the incredible opportunity to visit Chiara's Great-Great Grandma Pitschka, in Minnesota. She is 95 years older than Chiara and is still living by herself!!! That's pretty amazing. We had a lovely visit and she told us about moving with her mother from Iowa to Minnesota. Her mother made a deal to farm some land and plowed it all herself. Grandma Pitschka remembers picking strawberries in the summer. She also remembers her mother canning quite a bit. When Grandma Pischka was a young mother she would can two to three hundred cans each summer. She worked hard on their land as well. When she was pregnant her husband was away working during the days sometimes and she would have to climb a ladder on the outside of the barn up to the hayloft and shovel hay to the animals in the barn (She went on the outside because she was scared of their ram's bad temper). She believes to this day that the strain of the ladder is the reason her daughter was born with the cord around her neck.
Monday, June 28, 2010
Roadtrip
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| We used our move from Utah to South Carolina as our summer vacation this year. |
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| Chiara enjoyed camping out...she loved crawling around the tent! |
Friday, June 18, 2010
You Can Bury Alot of Troubles, Digging in the Dirt
Even tho we know we are moving this summer, we decided to plant a garden. I'm so glad we did, it was a great experience. We did a raspberry plant, several tomatoes, peas, and peppers, onion, basil, cilantro, and lemon balm...all in container planters. They turned out so good!
Monday, June 14, 2010
Red, White, and Blue...I am for you
I decided to celebrate flag day for Chiara's preschool lesson. Daddy helped frost graham crackers into flags...we also got creative and did a few other countries' flags...Who knew learning could be so delicious
