Archive for Wordless Wednesday
Grandma’s Childhood Home
In April we made the six hour drive to Rice Lake, WI to visit my mother-in-law’s childhood home – thus the title of our Wordless Wednesday post. We were quite happy to report to her that it has been very well kept, as you can see from the photo. It was a beautiful drive up north going through all the farming communities.
Rice Lake is only a town of 8,000 or so but compared to some towns with the population of 8,000 Rice Lake seemed to have the monopoly on business. We assume it is because of the distance that everyone has to travel. I mean they had a Super Walmart, a health food store, a Farm and Fleet and a bunch of other stores that we were surprised to see in a town of that size.
The town has changed in big ways since the 30’s and 40’s I am sure, but my mother-in-law was unable to make the trip with us to tell us exactly how it had all changed.
It was an incredibly windy day (but sunny and beautiful) the day we visited, but we managed to show the children how to “skip” rocks despite the choppy lake. We had a picnic lunch which kept blowing away, but we endure it to make some happy memories of our short time in Rice Lake.
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A Funny Story about the Spring Tulips
There is a funny little story behind our spring tulips from our Wordless Wednesday photo which we think are beautiful signs of spring.
Several years ago I had the children help me plant tulip bulbs in the fall of that particular year. However, I neglected to instruct or inspect their work before they covered the bulbs up. It took these tulips forever to come up and for couple of years all we had was the green leafy part of the tulips. Then this year we actually had four or five tulips total, so we were excited!
We figure some of our tulips could be half way around the world now trying to find their way to sunlight since they were probably planted upside down!
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Hair Cutting
How many of you cut your family’s hair? I do. With nine of us, it definitely saves us a lot of money over the course of the year. I didn’t start cutting my husband’s hair until we had our boys. It was after I started cutting our sons’ hair that my husband asked me to cut his too. Let’s just say that it’s been a learning curve and there have been plenty of bad hair cuts around here!
Our older girls have always had longer hair styles, so they have usually just needed trims. I have cut my own bangs since my college days, so bangs haven’t usually been too much of a problem unless I had a wiggly child! I really like basic cuts since that is about all I can do. I only use hair clippers (Wahler) and scissors, but really prefer hair clippers for the guys of the family.
Blondie in our Wordless Wednesday picture and our daughter before her both look sweet with a shorter hair cut, like a bob. I like how it looks and how easy it is to care for. When I just had our three girls and even when I had five children, I would spend extra time just to do the girls’ hair. Then time became of the essence in getting anywhere and having everyone ready on time, so the two younger girls get shorter hair styles now. While the older girls can style their own hair and can even give Blondie’s a quick brush.
I just recently cut everyone’s hair and was pleased with how Blondie’s hair turned out. She was too!
