a big (little) family

Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.

Friday’s Photo 4/17/16

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I think I’ll start a regular Friday post of funny photos(s) from my week. Today… We had three major toy catastrophes in the yard. There was the dump truck mishap. Something must have caved under pressure. The fire truck didn’t make it to the scene of the accident. It was the scene of the accident. […]

TOS Review: Memoria Press

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As part of the Review Crew for the Old Schoolhouse, I was selected to review Memoria Press and their First Start Reading program with Charlotte (age 4 1/2). First Start Reading is a classical curriculum to teach your pre to early elementary aged child Reading, Printing, and Phonics. Charlotte is beginning to read already and is […]

I don’t care. Wait, I do.

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We have a small house. I’ve mentioned this before. We have nine people living in 1289 square feet and it works… it even works well. But the house is full. I’ve gone down to bare minimum to live fairly comfortably but it still leaves us with a full house. And I’m okay with that. I […]

Meet Maisie

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We had plans to get a dog from my sister, but when that dog started eating her chickens, we decided not to get her. We don’t have chickens at the moment, but we might… it’d be nice to have a chance to keep them alive if we do. So… my sister gave that dog to a […]

April Fool’s Day

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Last year, I introduced my children to a good April Fool’s day joke. This year, they needed no help. Liberty googled it. We had spiders drawn on toilet paper, water sprayers rubber-banded open, dry erase marker on the television screen’s glass, tape on the computer mouse light so it wouldn’t work, and blue food coloring […]

On the days you can’t do any more, then what?

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Most of the time, I feel like I can handle my life. Lately, even, I wonder about having another or if seven is it for us. Life is crazy, chaos even, but it’s fun. Most of the time. Then I have days like today. Yesterday Blaine told me he’d have to work today. He usually […]

Written Conversations

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I love this girl… and her sense of humor. She handed Blaine this note when he was sitting in the bedroom with his phone and ran: He texted her Kindle before he left the room… the lag on the Kindle meant it arrived about the time he emerged. Still. So funny. Some days parenting older […]

TOS Review: Circle C Milestones

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Several weeks ago, I received for review a copy of Susan K. Marlow’s latest paperback book, Thick as Thieves from Circle C Milestones. I also have access to the downloadable Study Guide. I first gave the book to Liberty, age 11, and she loved it. Absolutely loved it. I heard about it constantly and she […]

Minesweeper, Real Life Version

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Walking through my house in the dark is a little like playing Minesweeper. You know, that computer game with hidden landmines that you mindlessly click on spaces, hoping to not land on one of the ten mines in a 100 square space? Or you decide to up the ante and you go to the 1,000 […]