Eden turned 16 on February 1. It was a whirlwind of a day. She went for her driving test, waited and waited at the DMV, passed her test (in the old 1988 GMC pickup, same as Liberty – I’d love to hear what the cop that gives the test thinks when they walk out and […]
Sickies.
It started last Thursday. Creed woke up congested. A cold was starting in my head, and I cringed at dealing with it. I had no idea what was coming. By Friday it moved to my chest. Friday night, half of the kids had symptoms. Liberty and Eden were miserable, Creed was super miserable, and Ruby […]
The Jolly Green Giant
A couple weeks ago, my van broke down. We were on the interstate, in the dark, on the way home from our homeschool co-op. The older four kids were at a friend’s house, so it was me and the five littlest. The oil light came on, things were weird, and I pulled over, fearing an […]
Sewing project.
I made Creed a couple pairs of boots… and an extra, too small pair for when I thought erroneously that 9-12 month boots would fit my 8 month old son. Turns out, his feet are also big! I’ll use the too small pair for a baby shower I’m headed to next month. That was on […]
Creed: 8 months.
A quick trip to Bass Pro with Blaine and Creed and Blaine had to show Creed the fish. He was more impressed with that baby staring back at him in the glass. Creed Stats: 8 months old, wearing 18 and 24 month clothes, 23 pounds. Sitting. Not a fan of being on his stomach. At […]
Boys.
Only in a world with boys: my peanut oil jar was outside after frying a turkey in the fryer out there. I found it out there empty and brought it in to wash it. It has a perfect BB hole in it. Sterling’s response: “I wondered what I hit! I heard it but couldn’t find […]
Leather.
For my birthday in November, Blaine gave me a gift card to the leather company. For a little while, I ignored it. I finally watched enough videos to figure out what I needed to hand sew leather, bought a leather purse sewing pattern, and deliberated a bit longer. One afternoon I spent two hours picking […]
Creed: 6 Months
Creed James is six and a half months old, 19.9 pounds at his last checkup, super content, and has yet to decide to roll or scoot or crawl. He stays put, plays with toys with passion, talks and reaches for me, and feels he has the right to sibling entertainment as often as he wishes. […]
Hunters.
Sterling has been hunting almost daily for a month it seems. When bow season opened, he was there. Then firearms season started, and out he went. He went often with the neighbor. He ended up with a nice buck. Eden has gone with him some. She works a lot and sleeps past 6am enough that […]
Thanksgiving 2020
Happy thanksgiving! Our plans included just the eleven of us, sticky buns for breakfast, appetizers through the day and fried turkey with all the fixings late afternoon. I got a stove off of Craigslist earlier in the week. My commercial stove has had a few minor frustrations… more on that later. We decided to switch […]
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