Sterling hates tomatoes. He always has. He loves ketchup. He loves spaghetti sauce. But he hates tomatoes. Tonight, we had BLT sandwiches for supper. He had half a sandwich with extra bacon. I was trying to be nice. He didn’t see nice. He saw tomatoes. He sat staring at the dreaded sandwich for far longer […]
TOS Review: USAopoly
Members of Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew were offered two games from USAopoly to play, learn, and review. I received Tapple: Fast Word Fun for Everyone and Wonky: The Crazy Cubes Card Game. Both are suggested for ages 8 and up. While Ruby is only 7, she attempted to play too. Wonky worked well for her, […]
Charlie’s five and Ellie’s a mess.
Today Charlotte Serenity turned five. I’m not certain why, but fifth birthdays always seem rather monumental, and hard to take as a momma. She’s getting so big. She’s doing well with learning to read, doing first grade math, in K5 at co-op, and learning so much these days. She loves her dolls, a blank piece […]
TOS Review: YWAM Publishing
When I saw YWAM Publishing come up on the list of reviews coming up for the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew, I might have shrieked a little. We’re a little bit fanatical about Youth With A Mission around here. I looked through our current collection and selected a book we did not own yet from their Christian […]
Eight babies, massive laundry piles, and eye bags…
Blaine and I went out for our anniversary yesterday. Amazing… No kids for 5 hours. Blaine’s phone has photos – the very first selfies we’ve ever taken. I’ll track one down. We were on the shuttle back to our car from one very fancy restaurant when an older gentleman asked if this pregnancy is our […]
Thirteen.
Thirteen years ago today, Blaine and I were married. It’s been the happiest, craziest, most stressful, shortest, fullest years of my life. The first two years were, honestly, awful. I spent the first nine months pregnant and horribly sick. I had massive amounts of growing up to do. I was 18, Blaine was 25 when […]
It’s a…
Our 20 week ultrasound was a few weeks ago, and we found out we’re having boy! We haven’t known the gender of our babies except for Sterling and Ruby before they were born, so finding out was pretty fun and different. Our pattern is broken. We’ve had girl, girl, boy, girl, girl, boy, girl… boy! […]
The days are full, the hours are short… and the house is a wreck!
I can’t keep up. I know. Shocker, that. This week I started out with an 8:10am doctor appointment for Ruby Monday morning. Might as well get the week started out right. That day had enough errands to keep us running until 3pm, and the kids got school done in the van. It’s scary how adaptable […]
TOS Review: Stinky Kid Math
We’ve been working on Stinky Kid Math for a review with the Old Schoolhouse Magazine. Liberty (12) and Eden (10) have both been given a 6 month subscription to Stinky Kid Math for the purpose of this review. Entirely online, Stinky Kid Math is a math help – not intended (but likely fairly capable) to […]
Maisie’s making ME crazy.
Yesterday, one of the kids had a doctor appointment. I expected it to take ten minutes. It did… after we waited in the exam room for an hour waiting for the doc. Why couldn’t we have stayed in the waiting room for that hour, where there was a train table and a plethora of toys? […]
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