a big (little) family

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

Your perspective is… interesting.

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We went to the zoo today. Last Christmas, we bought a zoo pass for the kids. Best Christmas gift ever – no clutter and year long enjoyment. So today we dropped school for the afternoon (and will likely make up tomorrow, because I’m just not a rule breaker like that. Can’t do it.) So first […]

Water has never been so expensive.

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Or so valuable. Three hundred fifteen feet of galvanized pipe down, one 33 year old well pump gave up the ghost. Four days of no water makes the bill to pull it up and replace the pump and pipe so much easier to swallow. Water’s flowing again, the dishes are on their way to clean, […]

I like how he thinks.

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“I like God. He knew we didn’t have water from our well so he made it rain today so we could catch it.” – Sterling

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For a few lovely hours, the water worked great. And then… we’re back to where we started this morning. Water would be good. But I’ll settle for a night’s sleep and hope things look better come daylight. Ugh.

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I’ve been caught.

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I sold a Johnny Jump-Up of sorts on craigslist after I bought a Jumperoo, since most of the doorways in our house don’t have trim around them – and those that do are around stairs. Not so good. Anyway, in meeting the woman who bought it, we started talking about goats. They have some too […]

You don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone.

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I went to make supper last night and found out we had no water. No water in the bathroom, no water in the kitchen, no water at the outside faucet… this is not good. I cringed and called Blaine. Nope, definitely not good. Making supper without water = hard. Cleaning up = even harder. And […]

The Mall Baby

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We don’t venture to the mall very often. It’s all the way across town and with five kids… it’s just usually a get-in-get-out venture to smaller stores. So yesterday, when we pulled into the mall parking lot with a friend following us to do some shopping, Ruby asked “Momma, what’s this place?” “It’s the mall, […]

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Liberty’s milked for me six times now. That’s more times than Blaine has total since we got the goats in February. If she’s not careful, she’s going to have herself a full time job. Because six times this week, I haven’t had to milk goats.

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Science experiments and statements of the day.

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It hit 108 degrees today. Not on my little thermometer that might (I don’t think so though) have sun hit it, but the news said so. My inside thermometer said it was 98 in house. So in the name of good humor and trying not to cry… we broke an egg onto the concrete of […]

Number games.

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Sterling: “How old is Grandpa?” “Fifty-two.” Ruby: “I’m two too!” “Fifty-two, Ruby. Not just two.” “Oh. I not fifty-two. I just two.” Whew.   Teaching Sterling to write 2’s and 3’s has proved to be a challenge. And then, I said something I’ve never needed or had opportunity to say during the handwriting process. “Pretend […]