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?
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
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
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
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 […]
TOS Review: Lord Heritage
The Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew has had the opportunity to spend some time working on Lord Heritage‘s HomeSchool Office to review it and see what is has to offer the homeschooling community. Each of us on the review received one year to access the planning program and make it work for us. A completely […]
Skinned knees, free lunch, and huge pot holes
Spring’s here. ‘Tis the time for skinned knees and trips to the zoo. The two went hand in hand this week, unfortunately. Poor Charlotte got a firsthand experience on running down hills and gravity and just how fast her little legs can (not) move. (I am, right about now, exceedingly grateful for my shorts-always-go-under-skirts rule!) I […]
It’s like taking candy from a baby.
Four of my children have taken pacifiers. Liberty, Eden, Sterling, and Elliot have all had them and been quite attached. For each of them, I took it away during the day right around their first birthdays and then took it away completely around 15-18 months. Ellie turned one this month. It was time. Except Ellie […]
TOS Review: GPA Learn
When the opportunity to review GPA LEARN and their online math supplemental program GPALOVEMATH came up, I was super excited. The program looks amazing and I knew my kids could learn from it. I requested a Great Parents Academy membership for five of my children. Liberty is 11 and in 6th grade, but I knew she’d […]
Saturday Fun and Other Happenings Around Here
We went to a birthday party for a friend today. Some of the kids got their faces painted. It was an amazing job. (Ruby and Charlotte said they didn’t want theirs painted… because they’d have to take another bath. Silly.) I made a dress for the birthday girl. Ruby is about her size and helped […]
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