Charlotte has a Most Amazing Co-op Teacher. She loves her class, and talks about all they learn. It’s impressive. The first week of co-op, Charlotte – and each of the K4 students – came home with a Painted Lady Caterpillar. While I thought, many times, we’d killed the poor thing, this morning’s caterpillar check revealed […]
TOS Review: 7 Minute Life Daily Planner
Recently, I was asked to review The 7 Minute Life Daily Planner from The 7 Minute Life for the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew. I received a 7.3 x 8.5 inch, 271 page undated planner from them for this review. The 7 Minute Life is based on the premise that the average person’s attention span is only […]
Sewing bored.
Blaine is traveling for work this weekend and part of next week. Tonight, at 10pm when all the kids were asleep, I sat on the chair, not sure what to do with myself. I dug around for the closest matching fabric I could find without waking Ellie mere inches away, raided the bias tape I […]
It’s a girl!
Alexandra had a GIRL!!! I couldn’t be more thrilled… pretty sure she’s still just in shock. After four boys, I think she’d rather expected another one. In blog nickname fashion, this one will go by her middle name on my blog… Rachele. For the record, this proud aunt couldn’t be more excited to share my […]
A Perfect Gift
Sunday, Sterling presented me with a gift. He’d been hard at work for a couple days on it, and his pride in his work was immense. He’d hauled a pallet up to Blaine’s shop in the backyard, marked it, cut it with his hand saw, sanded it down, had Blaine help him drill holes for […]
TOS Review: Heirloom Audio Productions
As part of the Old Schoolhouse Review Crew, I received for review from Heirloom Audio Productions a copy of their 2-CD audio adventure Under Drake’s Flag, a dramatization of the novel by George Alfred Henty. When I saw this come up for review, I was thrilled… and hoping I got on the review! I love […]
Friday: This week in review.
Words I never anticipated putting into a sentence prior to motherhood: “Don’t itch your head with the saw.” Really now? The red stripe of paint down the side of Sterling’s face, just where he was itching, made it look like blood. I thought, before investigating, that he’d actually cut himself in the process. Good. Grief. […]
Romance… in real life.
My previous post got me to thinking. About romance. (Because nothing screams romance like reading my husband’s mind… regarding the television cabinet.) Back when I was 18, having met this man I married, dreaming of the life in front of us, it was supposed to be romantic. We’d sit by the fire, reflecting over our […]
It’s another world that I live in.
I quoted from “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” tonight when Blaine asked for the television remote and the cabinet containing the television was closed. My husband looked at me, puzzled. It would seem he’s not up on his children’s fiction and has never read the book. If I’d have quoted Shakespeare or C. […]
The Many Adventures of a big (little) family
We’re still in South Dakota. The plan was to leave today to go home, but last weekend my a/c quit in my van. In a large box with one vent window and two front windows that open and everything else immobile, no a/c as we head back into nearly 100 degree temps was less than […]
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