We’ve been making bracelets. You know the ones, out of embroidery floss and many, many knots later you have a tri-colored bracelet. Pretty simple and rather cute. Last year I made one for each of the kids. The girls tried and handed them off for me to finish last year. This year, I’d made mine, […]

Wish me luck. Making goat meat (ie. ‘chevon’ or ‘cabrito’ – I’m not sure which category he fell into) for supper. I’m nervously skeptical and making a good amount of potatoes on the side just in case we… need to eat potatoes for supper. Ruby gave Charlie her stuffed bunny to play with. She told […]

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My girls are back. Life is back to normal. I’ve had to separate more arguments this weekend than normal by a long shot. Ah yes, they certainly missed home. My parents came for the weekend and brought the girls back. We got quite a bit done yesterday. My living room is now blue. So much […]

Just an FYI, if you itch poison ivy – and try as I did not to itch it, I did – you can actually bruise your skin from itching too much. It’s an ugly scenario. My girls are coming home tomorrow. I’m cleaning house today. You know, wouldn’t want them thinking I’ve been slacking off […]

Last night, contemplating such deep things (or maybe just really bored because Blaine had to work late) I had this brainstorm. Rather missing the nose ring I’ve worn for over two years, I decided to put it back in. It’s been out for two weeks. Noses heal really, really fast. It took me a good […]

“Don’t ever throw Cheerios on the floor again, Charlotte. I don’t like picking them up.” “Your sun tea is spicy, Momma, try it!” “Dude, you just spit in it. I don’t want any!” “Sunburns don’t hurt, Momma. I don’t need sunscreen.” (Spoken by the dear son who once blistered his shoulder when I missed a […]

We switched cell phone providers a month and a half ago. My new cell phone drops calls constantly. The rest of the time people cannot hear me for the awful reception. Often I cannot dial out. I called to complain and they are sending me a new phone to see if that fixes the problem. […]

…if Ruby’s carrying them to the house. “I won’t run, Momma. Can I carry the eggs?” We’ve been through this before. Running to the house with a bucket full of eggs makes for pre-scrambled eggs: dirty-style. So I let her carry the eggs into the house from the chicken coop this morning. One egg survived […]

“Mom. Mom. Mom. Ruby’s asleep, and Charlotte’s asleep and you’re asleep and I don’t want to sleep, So what can I do? Sorry for waking you up though. You can take another nap after you tell me what I can do if you want to.” “Thank you, Sterling. How about coloring a picture?” “Or you […]

Back when I was single (in my teens, mind you) I had this perfect ideal for who my husband would be, I didn’t pick thin. Nope, I wanted one bigger than me – by a lot. I did not have any desire to rival my husband for size – or worse yet, beat him hands […]