a big (little) family

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

Dilemmas I’d never dreamed would be life.

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How does toothpaste get on the side of the toilet? I always buy white toothpaste – the bright blue stuff does not blend in well and it stains the white bathroom rug. I do not like scrubbing the bathroom walls every day. Now the walls are orange and I’m wondering why I did that. They […]

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A few weeks ago I signed up for the Purex Insiders. Free samples and trying new stuff is always fun. They sent me a little sample of their crystal fabric softener. It smells great – and the clothes coming out of the dresser still smell great. Now, if it would just cover the smell of […]

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Such the quandary.

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The kids all piled in the tub for their weekly “before church” bath. (No worries. There’s a Tuesday morning “before co-op” shower too. Most of the time.) With the amount of dirt in the tub when all the water was out, I know one of two things. Either this last half of the week was […]

Here a goat, there a goat.

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Meet Ms. Goat. She’d been named Blackie. It doesn’t seem very fitting to me, so for now, she’s Goat. Maybe we should have a “Name That Goat” contest. And her kid, Socks. I should have zoomed out – he really does have black “socks”. Cute, pitiful, and feisty.   And currently taking up residence in […]

Meet Ms. Goat. Photo shoot to follow.

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Saturday, I bought a goat. Two, actually. A milking doe and her kid, old enough to be weaned but not. Milked before, but not recently. Cheap. Turns out, spending more might have been ok. My knee would say so anyway. I left them alone Saturday (after driving through the top of Springfield in a pickup […]

Mathematical confusions.

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“Liberty, what unit of measure do we use to measure weight?” “Ilbs.” “Eden, if you cut something into two pieces, what is each piece called?” “Twoths? No, tooths isn’t a word. Teeth?” Oh boy, we’re learning now. Math provided a great deal of comic relief this morning!

Let’s mix things up, just a little. Ok, more than a little.

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I’ve had two family practice doctors, two OB’s, and one certified nurse midwife (and then an OB when things didn’t go my way) for prenatal care. I’ve spent hours and hours in waiting rooms, waiting for my two minutes with my doctor. This time, it’s gonna be different. This baby’s gonna be born at home. […]

Such the memory.

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Nine years ago today, I drove 66 miles from my job as a nanny on Long Island, got lost more than a few times, and went to a church in New Jersey for the second time. I’d been there once before, swore I wouldn’t do that and get so very lost again, and yet, two […]