I’ve been cleaning. Call it spring cleaning, or whatever you will, but I’m determined to find ways to organize better, clean things up, help this house maintain on it’s own. Today, I was working in the bathroom. I touched up the paint on the walls, repainted the trim, and took all the doors off our […]

During a discussion regarding the mockingbirds that are taking up residence in our trees lately, Blaine told Sterling that they copy whatever they hear. He demonstrated with a whistle, and he and the mockingbird had quite the interlude. Sterling, however, was confused. “But how can they copy it? Do they have copy machines?” My kids […]

Yesterday, we went grocery shopping. We needed bread – I buy that about every 5 weeks – and a week and a half worth of groceries. I hate taking all the kids these days, but that’s what yesterday needed to be. Five hours in, ready to go home, worn out from dealing with kids and […]

Eden’s doing a report on Thomas Edison for our homeschool co-op. A voracious reader with a seven year old vocabulary, she was telling me about what she’d read. “A bear he’d caught in town and tied to a tree broke loose, blundered into his lab, and wrecked hay-vock. What’s hay-vock mean anyway? And I don’t […]

I’ve been sewing. Determined to make a sling for Pierce that will get me hands free again after he outgrew my tube sling, I found a pattern for a Mei Tai and went to work. Hello, land of the living. Sling’s finished, and Pierce took a nap in it ten minutes after I tied him […]

The neighbor from half a mile down the road pulled into the driveway as we were outside this afternoon to introduce himself and welcome us to the neighborhood. We bought the place and moved in just shy of two years ago. Friendly place. In all fairness, we’ve certainly not experienced any unfriendliness. People just leave […]

Charlotte’s a little mimic. Her new word? “Rude.” It’ll break any tense moment when I’m scolding someone for being rude when her little one and a half year old voice pipes in and says “Rude!”. Guess what we’ve been talking a lot about lately?

We were given a set of encyclopedias on Sunday. The girls are in love with all the knowledge at their fingertips. Today, Liberty was telling me of people who wear paper underwear held up with rubber bands to be modest. She can’t remember what entry she was reading.

Charlotte got tipped over in the shopping cart on Saturday. Talk about a heart stopping moment. Charlotte was in the cart, Ruby stepped on the side, and over they went. I watched from the other side, diving for a falling cart that I couldn’t catch. You’ll never guess what they landed in. Lawn mower blades. […]

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