Note to self: Next time you wonder if someone put the chicken and hamburger from the grocery shopping trip in the freezer without being asked, investigate. Thank you, Lord, for the little things. Cooler bags, rainy days, and mostly frozen meat 18 hours in the van later saved me a lot of money and another […]
It needed a good scrubbing.
The north side of my house this morning at 10:37 am: The north side of my house three hours of scrubbing and the better part of a gallon of bleach later: Hooray for elbow grease. And nice, comfy beds that beckon after a ridiculously exhausting day. I never, ever would have said I am a […]
The floor?
There’s a first time for everything. This was definitely a first. The nakedness… that’s not a first.
Try ‘normal’.
Our house has a central air unit. It was broken when we bought the house, and being huge fans of the 100+ degrees our Missouri summers provide, we’ve yet to fix it. Ruby told me how to fix it today. (Mind you, it was 82 in the house and quite comfortable with just the ceiling […]
Ahhhhh!
Number of times I got interrupted while trying to read an article this morning: 6. Number of times I got interrupted before I hollered “Ahhhhhhhhhhhh!” when I lost my place. Again. 8. Apparently I did not holler loud enough, because they didn’t stop coming. I’m swimming in things to do and not enough frame of […]
What a week.
We live next to a cave. No, not in a cave. Next to one. Close enough that we can walk to it and get there before Charlie gets tired. Close enough that we get to do the touristy thing and go through it, whenever we want, for free. Ah, the perks of this little house […]
Dear Baby Boy,
Maybe you ought to consider sleeping later. When your first nap happens at 7:24 am, you might think about shifting your nap into your night and letting Momma get more sleep too. More sleep for Momma can only be a good thing. Less crabbiness, more energy to play with you, and a longer fuse might […]
swimsuit shopping
Ah, swimsuit shopping. I realized I needed one. With plans to head out for a week of camping beginning next weekend, I remembered the one I’d worn for the last two summers is of the maternity sort. The one I wore for the several summers before that was so old it was starting to get […]
boot heels or something like it
After a discussion on plagiarism and instructions not to do it, I set the girls to their science assignment: to write about the climate in Missouri. With encyclopedia in hand, the girls got to work. Eden’s report, in part, reads, “In July, average temperatures range from about 80* in the shoe heel section…” Liberty’s reads, […]
A boy and his best friend…
(Again, pants-less) Pierce really loves Brady. Brady really loves all the attention (be it hair-pulling or of the gentler sort) that Pierce will give her. She doesn’t seem to mind a bit. She’ll even clean his face for him. Not to be outdone, Charlotte had to kiss him too. Mmm. If that doesn’t just make […]
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