a big (little) family

Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.

Pizza night.

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8/10’s of the kids and cousins that were here this week. As you can see, not a one of them enjoyed the pizza. 🙂

Back to your regularly scheduled chaos.

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Vacation’s over. Guests left, dishwasher’s running, and life is back to normal. The house is too quiet. Actually, it’s not quiet at all. But it’s all our noise and none of the joyful cousins-playing noise. Boringly normal. So normal, in fact, that Blaine’s sick, Charlotte is still recovering, and Pierce is back to his mostly […]

Hello… goodbye.

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Interrupting this blogging silence to inform my throngs of readers that we have family visiting this week. Cousins, dominoes, and late night chats over root beer floats abound. I’ll resurface soon. But for now… we’re having a blast.

Gross on a Farm Road in Missouri.

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Tonight’s bath time was out of a horror movie, Momma-style. I had most of the kids in the tub, lined up. I walked out for a minute to check on supper (backwards, I know, bath then supper, but it’s the way tonight was going) and when I came back in, I set to work. Grabbing […]

HELP!

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I need a new blog name. It’s grown enough I’d like to get my own blog address, without the blogspot account… but I need a really good name before I venture into worlds unknown. Suggestions? Discussions? Admonitions to leave well enough alone? I want… – a name that will work for a long time. A […]

Makes a good teether, I guess.

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He was being awfully quiet. He found the potato and onion bin. Good choice on the potato instead of the onion, little dude. Mmm, breakfast.

Friendly fire, ridiculousness, and midnight hairdos.

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Night times are interesting around here lately. Temps are dropping in the night, Charlotte wakes up cold, climbs in bed with us, tosses, turns, kicks, kisses and giggles until I finally wake up enough to realize what’s going on. Put Charlotte back in bed. Might as well wake Sterling up, tell him to use the […]

How’s that for taste?

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Ruby asked me for more sun tea tonight. I poured it for her, and a bit later she came to find me. With a complete straight face, she informed me, “My sun tea didn’t taste that good. It was kind of sour, because you left a wipe in it.” Oh dear. Charlotte had put the […]

Startling moment.

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In giving Sterling a haircut today, I cut my knuckle. When did my hands get wrinkly enough to be able to hit them with scissors and actually catch skin? Is this what getting older feels like?

And… he’s off. Pantsless Pierce has a new skill.

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Life just got a little more interesting. Pierce went from standing at the bottom of the stairs to scaling them in seconds… and then trying to dismount just as fast. If I accomplish nothing else today, it’s still a success. I caught the baby AND I took photos for the blog.