Elliot is quite the two year old. She’s hilarious. She’s sassy. I have zero clue how I’ll survive her years. I do know it’s going to be a word game, constantly. “Dad, Ruby pinched me.” She called through a closed bathroom door. “What do you want me to do about it now?” We’re forever trying […]
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas! I tried to get a shot of the kids before church this morning. Fun times. First, I tried for a shot of the kids that came outside first. Proof that, no matter how many kids are in the photo, they still won’t all look and smile at the same time. Good grief, Ellie […]
Christmas prep, losing my sanity, and other everyday craziness
We’re getting ready for company this week, on top of doing regular school with plans to take off the time between Christmas and New Years. We all are looking forward to Blaine’s sister and her family coming next week – and I’m using it as perfectly good motivation to deep clean. As fast as we […]
When nothing seems to go right.
Some days we marvel at just how many things can go wrong. I was crabby to begin with, waking up with a headache, then sad at hearing of the death today of a great and godly man. That turned into frustration at children not following their chore lists and leaving the kitchen a scrambled egg […]
Family photo: the real version
On a recent walk, I decided to try for an impromptu photo shoot since we needed a family photo for the grandparents’ calendar we make each year. There’s the funny Elliot face. Pierce takes his turn for a funny face. Charlotte’s turn. Charlotte looks peeved that no one is smiling… Except if she had, we […]
Thanksgiving Week
I found Sterling last Monday morning with his math book on his lap. I thought I’d been clear. “No school this week, bud.” “None? Like, all week off?” Let me rephrase. I’m not checking, teaching, or answering questions with regard to school subjects. You do what you wish. We don’t take long breaks. We power […]
Christmas in… November? Except it’s not.
I turned 33 last week, and to celebrate, Blaine invited me, along with our two youngest children, to accompany him for a work trip to pick up something an hour away. Fun times. We got to throw rocks in the lake. Elliot particularly loved that, once I finally convinced her that swimming wasn’t an option. […]
Work, chaos, and noise… Times eight?
I’ve always thought that more children isn’t really two, three, four, eight times as much work. I already was washing laundry, a little more doesn’t hurt. I already needed to make supper, what’s a little more? Much of life is like that. It’s work I already needed to do, it’s just a little extra to […]
Nurse Cavell, take 2
As an addendum to my previous post… The back of Liberty’s nurse apron: I tried to make it realistic. She even tried it out doctoring her brother. He grabbed his bb gun, commissioned a pellet pistol for a backup firearm, and feigned injury with convincing grimaces. I see a soldier costume creation my future. And, […]
Edith Cavell…. Sort of.
Liberty came home from co-op Tuesday with an assignment for her WW1 class. She has a report to write on a historic figure and needs a visual aid to go with it. A printed picture surely will not do. She wants a costume to wear. I wasn’t convinced. Me, sew a costume to be worn […]
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