Hell’s Half Acre

Just a very quick note (and then I promise to update; not that anything of note has happened) for our new friends we met at the park in Neenah.  Jenny, Jack, Joey, Nate and baby girl (sorry, I forgot her name).    Oh, and mom, AMy.  This is the place! 
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Today is Maca (jamie’s grandmother)’s birthday. It was expected to be somewhat sucky; she has been abruptly moved from one home to another, her daughter (Jamie’s mom) is very sick, and Sissy is sick (so we didn’t want to subject the kids to her). But it is a lovely sunny (though windy) [...]

The past couple days Jamie and I have been moving about as if in a fog. We’re not really “present” with the kids and are always distracted.  Today, Jamie and I started coming out of our froggies. The altercation with Aunt Ellen has affected us deeply for different reasons. Jamie is very [...]

What kind of person gets angry at her brother and shows it by having his family pack up and leave in the dark?  I’m still in shock.  I still can’t believe we’re at a Days Inn instead of Aunt Ellen’s farm.  I still can’t believe she and Jamie were arguing about the fact that she [...]

We have been spending so much time in the Amish areas that when we moved westward today, I was shocked to find road shoulders full of debris instead of horse shit. “This certainly would not do”, was my immediate reaction until I realized that Amish buggies did not travel these roads and this [...]

We had planned to leave last Friday, waiting out winds and snow the previous two days but when we tried to put the slide in it would come in about an inch, no more. We tried all our normal tricks (we’ve had trouble with the slide since purchase) but it was no-go. [...]

This is one of the reasons we’re going “SCHWIIIIINGG” at the homes out here… Here is another; Jamie and I are crying about this one… This has lovely acerage and we love the town of Bristol… Here is another lovely Bristol home… My heart about stopped looking at this house… [...]

He’s got chicken soup on the stove, just cranked the stereo and is hip thrusting to “Burning Down the House” and he knows All The Lyrics. He’s cooking up grilled cheese with the Amish cheese and bread we bought yesterday and while he is doing NOTHING the way *I* would do it, but he’s [...]

What with the prevalence of Amish foodstuffs and having our trailer in for service (and eating out instead of making our own) we’ve been indulging in Much fat and Much sugar and Much high fructose corn syrup and Much chocolate (we visited a candy factory in La Grange; Plyleys) and then, just when we [...]

Well, international in the sense that we’re an international family. I’ve been thinking of how I can show my support to the Amish for the tragedy in Pennslyvania. I’m being diliberately vague in the event that children are reading. I know mine do. Today we headed to the Shipshewana Flea [...]