“What’s a daycare?” One of my children posed the question. Pausing, I tried to come up with a suitable answer. In the world of my children, they don’t know anything like it. Momma stays home with them. Explaining it’s a place that cares for children, rather like a babysitter, while parents work, my children looked […]

I didn’t set out to have a lot of children. I never sat down with my husband and talked about exceeding the world’s boundaries for what’s normal in the world of having a family. I never dreamed of the perfect number… but it certainly didn’t exceed societal norms of maybe three, perhaps four children. Responsibility […]

Pierce found the latest zoo magazine, and kept looking at the photo of the tiger on the front. He pretended it bit him, and was having fun pretending many scenarios with the photo. The boy has a vivid imagination. I pulled up tiger photos on a computer search to show him more tigers, and we […]

Potatoes were on sale at a store I don’t often get to tonight. I bought 90 pounds. I already had twenty in my kitchen. Chances are quite good we’ll go through all 110 pounds of them within a month. I remember the days of buying 5 pounds at a time, because 10 spoiled before we […]