A look back at Life

Life here in the Wisconsin Lubchansky household has been chugging along, while this here blog has been left abandoned.  The life offline is pretty awesome.  And while I am ready to be back in this space, I still have so much life with this family of mine that I want to enjoy to get bogged down in the online world. I am hoping I can be more deliberate with my online presence, keep all of my favorite people up to date on what we are doing living this one, beautiful life of ours and inspire some other to live the life they want.  Baby steps begin though with the biggest hurdle of all to resurrect a blog: BLOG CATCHUP.  So I am giving myself one week, to play catchup and then I need to move on to real, present day life, where my camera is clean and the focus works again... reason number one for blog failure, photography becoming no fun.  So one week, show your support and love.  Thank you for your patience.  

The boys and their Rosh Hashanah challah making.  Happy New Year back this fall.

 The Wisconsin River, if you have kids, take them to a sandy place with water, they will play without argument for hours, a total parenting win.  This was a fine October day, it was lovely.

 We carved pumpkins this year that we picked ourselves at the Tree Farm.  The boys each did their own, with their own serrated pumpkin carving knives, those knives are awesome, again if you have kids, buy those knives for pumpkin carving and carving of any other vegetable- or if you love carving yourself and still don't have one because you think you are too damn good with a paring knife, get over yourself and get one.

 If you can believe it, we had a piliated woodpecker in our backyard.  It was pecking a hole in our silver maple (which will hopefully have a treehouse by the fall) dropping chips all over.  It was exciting for everyone in this household.

 Cousin birthdays were celebrated with our oldest niece turning SIX!!

 And our house was re-arranged for some winter play so we can maximize our viatmin K intake.  Also, I scored that sweet crushed velvet, antique full of awesomeness chair on Craigslist.  Which reminds to find another picture:

that didn't even take me a minute: but this was my other fabulous find on Craigslist.  I wished for it for a week, then checked the listings and there it was as perfect as can be.  Oh and also the people who lived here before had this in the exact same spot:

Mine is thinner and fits the space perfectly, but when I was looking through old pictures, I had to do a double take when I saw a piece so similar in the photos from when we first looked at our house.

So there you have a brief update on our life.  My hope it to have one post each day catching you up on the rest of is, then next week back to reality.