a big (little) family

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

Oh, Charlie.

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Someone thinks it’s fun to pick price stickers off of the groceries and decorate herself with them.

Sure glad that’s over.

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We’ve had quite the week around this little farm. One day last week, right after the raccoon incident, the goats got out. Since they are, umm, goats, that was no shocker. Upon chasing them back in and heading up to do chores, Blaine found a bloody mess. They’d ran through the barbed wire outside of […]

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We borrowed some friends’ Bull Mastiff for a bit while they are away. Brady, meet the dog you think you are. While Brady thinks she’s big and tough, Belle has, in one glance, informed her that she’s not as big as she once thought. The kids love her. Except for Charlotte. At first I thought […]

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Hello, Random.

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Ruby put a blue Hi-Ho-Cherry-O up her nose and announced she had a nose plug. It was beautiful. Three of my daughters cooperated with my photo-shoot idea the other day. One didn’t. Betcha can guess which one! …and in case you thought this was random, you’d be scared to hear my thoughts these days. Attention […]

Mmmm…

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Guess what we made yesterday? In an extraordinary and unusual display of self control*, the kids saved chocolate bars from last fall to make s’mores. Yesterday, we fired up the grill and indulged. Yum. *That may or may not have been encouraged along by having hid and forgotten it about until recently.

Alrighty, then.

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I know that they say kids can sleep anywhere but this one takes the cake. I guess her science book was a little tiresome.

one bright sunny day…

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I am proud to announce that we no longer have any plain white walls in this house. Whew. It was really weighing on me. Mom’s here, and a post with photos is forthcoming. We’ve been busy. In the meantime, memories of yesterday’s bright sunny day (and playing with Mom’s new camera)…

Save the marshmallows!

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I became Sterling’s hero tonight. After hearing a raccoon in the shed growling at the dog and kids several times today, I finally caught sight of it. Since I had thoughts of children’s safety and the chickens we’ve been raising and the others than lay eggs… Sterling’s comment as we walked back down the hill, […]

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Yesterday Charlotte climbed to the top of the Little Tykes slide, slid down, and landed nose to bench with the big wooden picnic table. There was blood. If you ask her about it, she’ll tell you. She was pretty devastated that her fun was ruined in a ridiculous amount of pain. So, so sad.

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