Heaven to a 5 year old...

The other day, me, Kamilla and Annika were driving home from the cemetary after visiting Nora. Kamilla was talking about Nora playing in heaven and eating cotton candy. (She says the clouds are made out of cotton candy). I asked her what she thought heaven looked like and told me the following:

Heaven is a beautiful, sparkly place. It is pink and purple and is fluffy all around, and you can eat all the cotton candy you want. There is a little window where the people in heaven can watch the people on Earth. There are rocking chairs there, and God sits and rocks Nora to sleep.

I asked her to draw a picture of heaven for me when we got home. The above picture is her picture. You can't see on the picture, but she added glitter around the edges to make it sparkly. The brown "l's" in the middle are the rocking chairs, and God is standing at the left holding Nora in His arms. You can see the window at the top of the picture.

I like to hope that Nora is being rocked peacefully to sleep every night in a fluffy sparkly heaven made of cotton candy.

Latest Projects

Finally, I think spring has arrived! Unfortunately, I got hit with a nasty spring cold! Hopefully it will go over in a couple of days!

Here are my latest loom knitting projects!
The first hat was made on the blue loom loom, I tried my best at ribbing, but wasn't happy with the results. I was up late trying to finish it for a baby gift that needed to get to it's recipient, so I didn't want to frog it and try again! Hopefully, I'll get it the next time around!



My husband says this bear has "personality." I don't know if that's his polite was of saying that it is ugly or not! This one was a challenge though! The knitting and pattern itself was pretty simple, but the forming of the face took quite a bit of time! And in the end, I still didn't get it quite right! This pattern in from the Provo Craft book.

This is one of the first hats that I made - I thought this yarn was pretty fun, it's kind of loopy and pretty stretchy, plus I found it for 99 cents a skein!

This bunny purse was really fun to make! I bought the pattern from loomknit.com and gave it to my 4 1/2 year old daughter for Easter. Again, the knitting itself was pretty simple, but the finishing took some time. The back has a little pom pom for it's tail, and the handle is an i-cord in the same color as the bottom.

Eggs, Bunnies, and Baskets

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter! The day was bright and beautiful, but certainly not as warm as last year. We truly missed being able to have Nora here this year to partake in all of the Easter festivities. She would have loved to hunt for easter eggs and fill up her basket.

Kamilla woke with excitement ready to search for her Easter basket! It wasn't hidden all that well, she found it pretty quickly! She loved her basket of goodies. She's a pretty lucky little girl - she actually got 3 Easter baskets this year! One from the Easter bunny (shhhh - it's really Mamma and Pappa), one from Grampy Bob and Grandma Jan, and one from Grandma Sally and Grampy Jake! She was in Easter basket heaven!


We had Easter dinner at my parent's house this year. We were lucky enough to have Grandma Mabel be with us. We had the traditional ham dinner along with scalloped potatoes, fresh buns, hot cross buns (more on that later!), fresh fruit, asparagus, and deviled eggs. It was a nice time by all!

Annika was very smiley in her blue Easter dress! And Kamilla was beautiful in her yellow was as well! (Bunny purse made by Mamma!)

Missing Nora on Easter

Tomorrow is Easter sunday. I am afraid it will be a difficult day for our family. Last year's Easter was such a memorable day. The sun was shining and the air was warm. Kamilla and Nora were dressed in their matching green dresses, Mom was home from Rochester for the weekend and everything seemed perfect.

Nora became attached to a little yellow plastic egg that day. She clung to it where ever she went at my Grandma's house. It was wet with slobber throughout the day. She was so happy that day. She had a smile on her face while watching her sister and cousins search for Easter eggs outside at my Grandma's house.

Whenever I see a yellow egg at Easter, I will be reminded of my little Nora. We miss her every single day and wish that she could be her to hunt for Easter eggs herself this year. Kamilla wants to bring a basket to Grandma Sally's house this year so she can hunt for Easter eggs for Nora. I can imagine the smile that would be on Nora's face when she fills her basket full of colorful eggs. She would be running and laughing and playing with her sister and cousins.
We will say a special prayer for Nora this year on Easter. We have placed a basket of her favorite yellow eggs at the cemetary for her to enjoy. I know that she would love the little pink bunny too.

Nora's memorial will shine brightly at the church in which she was baptized and the church were her short little life was remembered. The memorial was created for her by David Badman (http://www.badman.com/), a local artist.

We miss you Nora.

Annika's Baptism

Annika's baptism took place last Sunday. It was nice to be able to have Kim's parent's join us for her baptism. Annika had kind of a difficult morning and wanted her presence to be known in church. Meaning, she gave her lungs a good workout! She cried during the entire baptism ceremony - which isn't surprising considering she doesn't like her baths! Annika wore the baptism dress that my Grandmother made for me. I also wore this dress 29 years ago. My brother Rob, and his wife Kim as well as my other brother Wes, and his wife Tess are Annika's sponsors. It was a nice day with the whole family. We missed Nora very much, but know that she was there in spirit.