a big (little) family

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

One of my worst fears.

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We got to go flying this week for the flight school I do the bookkeeping for. This time Liberty and Ruby got to go too. I dosed up both with anti nausea meds. If they helped… I’d hate to see what it would have been like without them. Liberty did okay, slightly nauseous, but she […]

Just. Keep. Going.

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We’re starting to wrap up school for the year. A couple kids finished handwriting, and today Sterling finished PreAlgebra. Pierce is days away from finishing his math. We’ve signed up for classes next year for co-op. I rather love the beginning of the end of the school year. Finally, the end is in sight. Kids […]

A night in the life.

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Bear with me for a moment while I log an evening in the life. Someday I’ll be glad I wrote this down, because things get forgotten when seasons pass. I walked into the kitchen to make supper. Potluck prep for the potluck after church the next day was also needing to happen. Both Liberty and […]

Stellan: information regurgitator.

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Stellan is a sponge. It’s super fun to fill his little brain with information that he spits back at you when requested. I’ll attempt to embed a video. Let me know if I’m successful? If not, I’ll go about it differently. 643C66C1-4C87-4CBA-B1B5-6A1D97A9B020

Valentine’s Dance 2019

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Liberty and Eden attended our co-op Valentine Dance just after Valentine’s Day. It was good to get back to the land of the living after our run in with influenza. They danced the night away and had a great time. I hung out with a job at the dance… and an excuse to be there! […]

Elliot Adelaide: 5.

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This sweet girl turned five on Friday. We celebrated her day with sticky buns, strawberry shortcake, and a trip to the chicken hatchery. We thought the little Jersey Giant that hatched a month ago needed friends. And we need egg layers. Aren’t they cute? We got Barred Rocks, Silver Laced Black Wyandottes, and Easter Eggers. […]

Hank, Hazel, and a wretched bout of the flu.

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Last Sunday, two day old baby goat Hank crashed. He was too weak to stand. We brought him inside, brought his temp up, stomach tubed him and fed him, and still he died. It was a hard day. Hazel acts like she doesn’t even notice. It’s so weird. We’ve been milking her for now. I’ll […]

So many babies.

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It’s been a week of new babies around here. We started out last Wednesday with a baby chick hatched by a broody hen. She sat on eight and hatched one. Checking the eggs to see if others were viable was a whole other story. My house smelled like death and destruction and burning it seemed […]

Stellan Wyatt: 3.

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Stellan wanted to color. He went to the printer, hit “copy” and with nothing in it to copy, it spit out a blank sheet of paper. He thinks the printer is a paper dispenser. And he’s figured out how to make it work for him. I can’t decide if I should be proud of his […]

Ewww. Just ewww.

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Eden made a cell model for her biology class at co-op. Because she procrastinates ridiculously well, she was down to the wire, and I wasn’t going grocery shopping before it was due. Meet: the cell model, completely edible, made with entirely out-of-the-cupboards ingredients. She managed to pull extra points out of her… forced creativity, shall […]