Why do we compare ourselves? The question plagues me. When I look at my shortcomings next to my friends’ strengths, I find myself… short. When I look at what my house… isn’t… I become discontent. When I compare the best of others to the worst of mine… Really?! We aren’t talking apples to apples, I’m […]
TOS Review: CTC Math
As part of the Review Crew for Old Schoolhouse Magazine, I’ve been given to use and review a 12 Month Family Plan membership to CTC Math, an online math tutoring program. I had Ruby, Sterling, Liberty, and Eden each work in their current grade level four days a week. They took quizzes to figure out […]
Ellie: 7 weeks
Miss Ellie turned 7 weeks old on Saturday. She’s learned to smile, laughs just a bit, hates getting her clothes changed, and loves being in the sling on Momma. She didn’t smile in any of the photos that focused properly, so enjoy a somewhat out of focus 7 week old grin… […]
TOS Review: Home School Adventure Co.
These last few weeks, the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew has been reviewing a few different products from the Home School Adventure Co. I received via PDF download The Wise Woman by George MacDonald with Literary Analysis Journal Questions by Stacy Farrell to review. The story is not written to women, but is rather about a Wise […]
Eww.
We were walking through Walmart, land of the classy for sure, when Charlotte found something bright pink and sparkly on the floor. In typical three year old fashion, she picked it up to examine it. When she asked what it was, I examined it. It was a fingernail. Not a “oh, I broke a nail” […]
Is this eternally significant?
I find myself making mistakes constantly. Human. So, so, so totally human. After a week with a few mistakes that bothered me more than most, I had to consider: “Is this eternally significant? Is this going to affect the long term?” I could, thankfully, look at the events of the week and realize what was […]
Motherhood: Not for the faint of heart.
It’s really hard to type anything substantial with one hand. It’s really hard to hold and or nurse a baby without at least one hand. See where I’m going with this? But, photos I can do. I love this one of Eden. It’s hard to get a genuine smile captured these days from her – […]
Spring excitement.
Where’s Waldo? Blaine? Blaine got home from work the other day and headed off to who knows what project he’d chosen for the evening. With a long list, you never quite know. The next thing I heard was the chainsaw. I went outside to see this. Blaine’s in there somewhere, perched in the tree, […]
Elliot Adelaide: 5.5 weeks
Baby girl is growing, becoming quite the fusspot, belches like an adult, and insists on nursing A LOT. Blaine’s wondering if she has acid reflux. I’m wondering if she doesn’t just have a good case of Spoiled. Ellie’s starting to smile often, grabs a fistful of my hair at every chance, and sleeps determinedly in strange […]
Beauty Treatments
The girls love curly hair. None of them were blessed with an over abundance of curls… a few got none at all. What we won’t do to change what we’ve been given. Ruby’s beauty treatment When I got up the next morning after rolling the three older girls’ hair in foam rollers, I found Ruby […]
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