

... take the bucket ...
Often when I find myself mopping the floors … especially in the springtime, I glance down at my little red bucket and I can’t help but think about Hilda – our beloved sheep… Having a lot of kids causes one to re-think the whole gift-giving thing. If we were to give each child the quantity of gifts each year that the media insinuates is “normal” – we would be squeezed out of our home – by STUFF! So, a long time ago, we started to give gifts that were “outside of the box” t