Cold day for church services but easier clean up with new “church dishes”
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Tag Archives: Lovina Eicher
Cookies, memories, and a long-lost rolling pin that wended its way back home
This will be my final column for 2015. After that, we enter into a brand new year. What does it have in store for us? The future is unknown, but if we trust in God to lead our way, it seems so much more … Continue Reading ›› Mild, dreary holiday weather has Eichers hoping for colder, sunnier days
Monday evening: supper is over, and everyone is relaxing for the evening. It is Christmas week already. Only a few days of 2015 left!
Daughter Susan is on a two-week break from the RV factory. The school has also closed its doors for two weeks. My husband, Joe, worked today but is now off work until … Continue Reading ››
Gift exchange, school program, and potluck accent Eicher family Christmas
I am already a day late in writing this column. December is going way too fast for me! Christmas is almost upon us.
Tonight is the elementary Christmas program at our school. It is the last Christmas program with one of our children in it. Kevin will be in middle school next year—a fifth grader already! … Continue Reading ››
Year winds down with farewell to a favorite cousin
One day after another goes by, bringing 2015 closer to history. We do not have snow. We had seven inches of snow several weeks ago, and last week a few flurries that stuck to the ground for a few hours. Our children are hoping it snows for Christmas. Snow does bring in the holiday spirit … Continue Reading ››
Bacon on the turkey, games and errands compose Thanksgiving weekend
Who will be the donkey? Fun game for your holiday season plus pumpkin pancakes!
It’s Thanksgiving week already! We will have my sisters Verena and Susan and sister Emma, Jacob, and family here for Thanksgiving dinner and also all of our family. I am planning to prepare two turkeys plus all the trimmings.
Son Benjamin, 16, was excited last week to shoot his first deer. My husband Joe and Benjamin … Continue Reading ››
Aggravation–the game, earache, sinus infection, and friends in a tragic accident
It is 7 a.m. Joseph, 13, Lovina, 11, and Kevin, 10, just left for school. It sounds very windy outside, but the temperature isn’t that cold, 58 degrees.
Son Benjamin, 16, is outside doing the morning chores. He doesn’t have work today. Mose is putting a new motor in his saw if I understood right. The … Continue Reading ››
Meat grinder and fruit press produces yummy cider for the Eicher family
We are almost halfway through November. So far we are having beautiful weather for November.
My husband Joe started our coal stove on Saturday for the first time this season. It seemed later than usual to start it. The house is nice and cozy now.
Saturday we were at Jacob and Emma’s. Joe and our sons Benjamin … Continue Reading ››
Just like young women everywhere, newly married Elizabeth consults Mom
