Bailey Family

  (Notice Seth missing in this fall picture...Seth was working -an all day raking job this day.) We actually all have matching pajamas; some are hard to see with so many piled on the bed. (Grateful for so many!) (We'll have an Edwards family picture at new years post later.) If you haven't gotten our Christmas card (or don't get our card) by new years, let us know. I sent them late and my labels weren't super sticky... Hopefully they all make it! {update 1/3/21: So far, 2 cards have come back without address labels.} I posted our recital today on YouTube. If you'd like to see the videos, email me for the links. (The twins are still dragging their feet about recording, and Carolyn's video is from my monthly piano recording for her school record, so she's in relaxed style. I'll add missing kids later.) It's been an odd year with challenges and changes and unexpected blessings and lessons. We feel grateful for those blessings and lessons and the strengt...

From November 21st until Now... Natalie Concert - She plays viola. This is her 3rd year. (Can you find her? She's the smiling red head in the front row. She's close to the right half of the picture.) The violist to her right and the first violin in the long flowy shirt are both friends from church. We had to drive separately to get there for various scheduling reasons, so Rob drove us from the exit (where he had parked) WAY over to the parking lot in front of the stadium (where Alee, Gideon, and I had parked). The kids thought it was very funny that we all piled in the pick up to drive through the parking lots. (One asked if we could drive all the way home like that.) After Seth's IGP (individual graduation plan meeting, yearly with parents and guidance counselor),  I rushed to Alee's school for a STEM activity. I made it at the very end. They were making some 3-mast ship. Caravel...theirs were not shaped like the Spanish ships from the 16th century, bu...