Hi!

Thank you for visiting my blog today!  I am amazed by the flood of interest and support for my post about Stella.  I will write more about her joyful life soon.  Thank you.  In the meantime, I have been busy with the boys.  The week started out innocently enough.  
A boy with a shovel and a dream.  
He wanted to build a hobbit house.  He and his pals have been very industrious.  There is now a fort, some semblance of hobbit house with a round green sled for a door, and a full (albeit very shallow) army trench dug into our yard.  Thankfully, not right in the front!  I am infinitely grateful that they are not playing video games, and I'm willing to have full-scale boy construction to get that.   What could be better on a warm autumn day?  The leaves are falling, oatmeal cookies are cooling on the countertop.
And the boys have shovels.