Sterling, with freshly scrubbed teeth, approached me with the twice-daily question. “Are my teeth clean?” In the midst of some other chaos, I replied, “I don’t know. Are they?” His reply made me giggle. “I don’t know! I can’t see them. Every time I look down to check them, they go down too!” It’s called […]
Christmas prep starts…
What started the day as a pair of ladies socks… ends the day as a blue-eyed sock money for Mr. P.’s Christmas. From the reactions I got from everyone, I may be making five more of these. No decent pair of socks will be safe… *Just for the record, cutting those socks up made me […]
Today’s craft project: recovered lampshades.
My mom gave me a lamp she wasn’t using anymore. The shade was dated, and after a trip across three states with seven people and a dog, it wasn’t in the best shape ever. Meet the new, revised version. It was too busy for the new lamp in the end, so it landed on a […]
Breaking new ground.
After six kids, it was bound to happen. We have our very first climber. I’m feeling like a rookie mom. I have never, before today, found a baby like this: I have, however, found this same child standing on the tray of his high chair, holding onto the shelf next to him. That one I […]
Soap, childhood dreams, and living pretty sheltered.
Last Friday, I made my first batch of bar soap. After talking about it and wanting to try to make it for over a year, I finally got all the things together and jumped in. Before I started, I watched a video on the process. Ruby watched it with me. As they were stirring the […]
Too many layers, thank you.
I asked Sterling to get Charlotte dressed this morning. He went and grabbed a dress, came back, and started pulling it over Charlotte’s head. Charlie was the one who stopped him and informed him he was supposed to take her nightgown off first. He said he forgot. He’s such a boy.
Pierce woke up very much on the wrong side of the crib this morning. (Figure of speech, of course. Literally, he’d have been out the window and on the driveway if he’d gotten out that way. And while I may have been tempted… no.) He cried, refused breakfast, and clung to me and sobbed for […]
“He always looks before he scoots.”
After giving the warning not to scoot the kitchen bench down because I’d placed a frame between it and the wall, undecided where to hang it, Ruby asked if I had to tell Daddy not to scoot the bench down too. I said I didn’t, because Daddy wouldn’t move the bench anyway. Her reply said […]
An effort – in futility.
Day one of Sit-Ups for a Flatter Baby Belly included Pierce pulling up my shirt in an attempt to nurse, followed by blowing raspberries on my stomach. Charlotte, Pierce, and Ruby all thought Momma laying on the floor meant one big squishy pillow made just for them. Push ups involved Charlotte driving a matchbox car […]
Tales from the back of a very large van. Part 2.
On the way home, Ruby asked if we were in Africa. We were in Sioux City, IA. Strange, those Africans looked remarkably Dutch. Detour? I bought bananas and peanuts for snacks on the way home. They were buried under three feet of luggage. We found them when we unloaded the van. A box of Kix […]
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