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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

I took this crew to the voting polls today. Then, we thanked a veteran at the grocery store. So, for about an hour, I felt like I was totally rocking this motherhood thing. I showed them the important of exercising their right to vote, and then the recognition of someone’s sacrifice for the country we […]

We’ve had a strange, quiet week. The kids and I went to the harvest party at a local park Saturday, Sunday afternoon I noticed spots on Elliot’s hand, Sunday night she ran a fever briefly, Monday she was fine. Tuesday afternoon Pierce started spots, never got a fever, and they are finally spot free again. […]

We’ve been busy around here. Beyond the ins and outs of normal life, we went to the very first football game my kids have ever experienced, we spent an afternoon at the zoo, we’ve been to the park numerous times, and we spent one day at the George Washington Carver monument. I’m trying to do […]