Tilly (13) is allowing me to share this paragraph she wrote for school last week. I asked the kids to describe a place using at least two of their senses. I thought you blog readers would enjoy this peek into our life, right now. Please excuse the pics, I didn't have any of our living room. So you'll just have to imagine.
The Living Room
By Tilly Bergeron
I hear Hezekiah and Tucker playing jousting. "All clear the jousting arena!"
I look at the clean floor that my brothers are playing on. I can smell the delicious fresh out of the oven cinnamon rolls that Adalia's making in the other room. I feel the Autumn sun shining on me and the soft couch beneath me. I watch my brothers conversing and bouncing, rolling to their placing for the "jousting tournament". I hear them say they're going to start a sword fight. I hear my own pencil scratching this paper.
Can you guess which sister is the loud, flamboyant outgoing one and which is the quite, reserved one???
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I love how unimpressed Tilly is with Adelia, and how much that really doesn’t matter to Adelia!!! Great pictures!!!!
Love her paragraph and love the pictures!
Voted again… you are up right now… hope you win!
love these photos! I so totally relate to Adalia. I regualarly have to restrain myself not to jump all over people in excitement! Elli is a calm child and I can’t be hyper or loud or ME (jk)around her or she get’s scared. Poor thing. At least I have Hannah and Elijah to jump around with! xo Love you all.
p.s. I seem to remember I scared some of your children with my hyperness too! But I didn’t scare Adalia….did I.
Those pics give a fun glimpse into your girls’ personalities!
ha- the second picture cracks me up. and what a sweet description of the goings-on of your home.
It looks like my sister and me! I used to watch her quietly reading in the yard, minding her own business and I would copy our kittens and sneak up on her and BOUNCE her suddenly and loudly. She was like a toy on a spring, down she went and slowly would pop up without losing her reading spot or her reserve. Poor sister…of course I was only 5 then, my husband would say nothing has changed only now he is the reserved one and he gets bounced at (tigger like) by me! I love the paragraph, I think several of your children are budding writers.
Love the pics. Am voting hard.
One of my all-time favourite quotes is from One Hundred Years of Solitude by Garcia Marquez. Talking about the signing of an agreement to end a war (I think that was it), he said “one could decipher the signatures from the sounds of the pens scratching on the paper.”
Tilly will have her choice of professional photographer or writer I think.
And by the way, do you use that face recognition thing with your photo storage? If so, I have to bet that the computer constantly confuses you and Adalia! She is JUST so like you, more and more each pic.