We’ve been playing outside more, and even got out the softball and baseball equipment the other day. I’m determined that my children won’t be the awkward homeschool kids who are clueless as to the rules of the basic sports games… slowly but surely, we’re getting there. We have practically a full team, though it gets […]

We got a new laptop. It. Is. Amazing. After the old (7.5 years old… and awful and super cheap to begin with) computer failing to cooperate well enough to do anything for about a year, and blogging on my phone for many, many months, typing on a full keyboard is pretty spectacular. And I hope […]

You know it was a good sermon when it knocks all three littles out, and you have to wake them an hour after service when it’s time to leave. (Or, at the very least, know that I got to hear all of it. Because no squirming children to reprimand or take out! Fabulous.)

The rain has finally stopped, and signs of drying out are beginning, but not without a whole lot of fun in the mud and water that has occurred after over seven inches of rain during the month of February. The ditches were full, and the kids had a blast playing in the water. Sterling apparently […]

Boys are a different breed. After growing up in a house of girls almost exclusively with just my sister and me except for a brief period, this is a whole new ball game for me. Sterling broke me in easy with his love for quiet and books and academia and working with his hands. Pierce […]

Today, Elliot turned four years old. It’s crazy to think how fast that time has gone. We celebrated with her requests: chicken nuggets and fries, salads, and angel food cake with strawberries and ice cream. A friend of hers came over for the afternoon and they played and played and when she was gone, Elliot […]

I came across this photo, circa 2009. It’s Sterling. It looks so much like Stellan it’s uncanny. I can’t find a photo of Stellan with the same pouty face. He makes it too. But this is Stellan, at the same age. Memory lane is sweet. And sad. But mostly sweet.    

This week, with co-op cancelled with the threat of impending snow, we ventured out to the aquarium. Two days earlier, we’d slid and skidded our way home when the storm hit during a birthday party in town. I tell you, I grew up in snow and cold but this ice business is foreign. I barely […]