We started school last week. At least, we tried. It’s been sketchy at best, trying to get a full day’s work in. Any day now we’ll have a full day at home to accomplish greater things. Stellan visited the eye doctor last week. I’d noticed his eyes traveling inward when he’s tired, much like Eden’s […]
Funnel Cakes and a Rodeo in the Rain
We got home Tuesday evening without incident. I have yet to catch up since. Laundry is done, folded, and put away. I found a new dresser for the two littlest girls and swapped that out for the one that was no longer fully functioning. That turned into a far bigger project than I expected. In […]
South Dakota: 2019
After an uneventful trip north, during which my big green diesel van achieved new greatness with 19 mpg and then was insulted with a rock bouncing off the windshield not once but four times in rock chip hall of fame glory, we are in South Dakota at my parents’ house. We got here Friday, bought […]
Tattoos.
The younger five kids came with me to the grocery store. The cashier offered them each a patriotic temporary tattoo. Why not? Then she told them to each take a handful. Side note: five very full handfuls of temporary tattoos is a LOT of tattoos. Elliot thought handful meant two hands full with more spilling […]
Camp and More Camp
Eden and Sterling are at Rodeo Bible Camp. Again. This has been a summer full of missing children. Sterling is learning rodeo clowning/bull fighting. It sounds like he’s having a blast. Eden is working on chute dogging once more. The kids called today. Told me about all the hurt cowboys. Broken bones. Seizures. Punctured arteries […]
Branches.
Happy Independence Day! I know. I’m late. My Thursday started out with a news article from my mom. A girl in Iowa had been killed from a tree branch. She’d been swinging on it or on a swing hanging from it, the article was unclear. The branch broke off and landed on her. This scenario […]
Liberty Skye: Sweet 16.
Somewhere along the line, my smallest baby, tiniest toddler, and most petite little girl grew. And grew. And now she looks me in the eye and we measure our differences in height in not inches but by fractions of an inch. She’ll pass me sooner than later. And today, she turned 16. Her new driver’s […]
Stellan goes on a bear hunt.
Stellan LOVES the book Going On a Bear Hunt. We borrowed it from the library and he promptly memorized the whole thing. I ordered him his own copy. It’ll be here tomorrow, but it’s a surprise. I’m so excited for him. I even made him a bear hunt T-shirt when I found a clearance tee […]
Rodeo Bible Camp 2019
Liberty and Eden just finished Rodeo Bible Camp. I survived. Enjoyed the week with my younger kids, even. They played together like never before. Usually they venture off in groups of two or three, but the whole time the big girls were gone they all six played together. The net swing got more use than […]
Savings Accounts, VBS, and an Army of Six
School is finished. Finally. The last subject hung over Liberty and Eden, and in exchange, over me, for the last month. Ultimatums may have been issued regarding horses and books and phones and makeup. (You know, all the important things to teenaged girls.) One of those threats must have worked they finished. Hallelujah, they are […]