Friday, November 30, 2012

Thanksgiving visit from Nana and Gompa as well as the Beginning of a LITTLE Project

November Andy & I celebrated TEN years of wedded bliss by going to Sedona for the weekend. It was an amazing trip and helped us realize we really do need one on one time away from home from time to time. A week later I celebrated a birthday and then the month was relatively quiet until Thanksgiving. So no pics of our trip or my birthday...sorry.
 
Thanksgiving weekend Nana and Gompa came to visit and we stayed so busy with the new project that I didn't take many pictures. Here are a few though.
 

Simon digging

Liam building


The framework on the new tree fort
A night in with Stormie girl


Family

The family endures because it offers the truth of mortality and immortality within the same group. The family endures because, better than the commune, kibbutz, or classroom, it seems to individualize and socialize its children, to make us feel at the same time unique and yet joined to all humanity, accepted as is and yet challenged to grow, loved unconditionally and yet propelled by greater expectations. Only in the family can so many extremes be reconciled and synthesized. Only in the family do we have a lifetime in which to do it. -Letty Cottin Pogrebi