Blaine took the kids to church tonight, and I stayed home with sleeping Elliot. (Formerly sleeping. Now she’s ingesting dry cheerios at a rapid rate and looking thoroughly confused at the quiet house she woke up to.) I was cleaning up supper after they left, found a nasty dried out milk mess under the spoon […]
TOS Review: Institute for Excellence in Writing
When offered the opportunity to review the Institute for Excellence in Writing as part of the Old Schoolhouse Magazine’s Review Crew, I was thrilled. I reviewed Fix It! Grammar: Frog Prince or Just Deserts (Book 3) and received both the Student Book and the Teacher’s Manual.I chose Eden to work on this. Eden is 9 […]
What they’re up to these days:
Ellie Adelaide now has two teeth. She’s six and a half months old, and enjoying chewing on any food she can get her fist on. The last few babies, I’ve not pureed anything for them, but given them lots of foods to feed themselves as they will. She loves it. She also loves gritting her […]
Back to School
We started back to school yesterday. It was one of the worst days ever. I’d planned to go back two weeks ago, but when the day came, I couldn’t do it. We took two more weeks off and jumped in. It was one of the hardest days. Ever. We started late. Children disobeyed. We reached […]
In review: our last few weeks.
Before we went on vacation, the boys had a bit of auto maintenance to do. Sterling was assigned the role of tire pressure adjuster. Pierce supervised. It would seem Pierce did not approve of the level of noise the work conditions required when the air compressor kicked on. The day before we left, June 26, […]
This is the life.
Ruby asked Eden what “encouraging” means. “Encouraging is… if Liberty died, and you were all sad, and someone offered to help and told you it would be okay, that would be encouraging.” Eden’s sermon notes included “God has chosen the poor as errors…” Oh my. Heirs. Where does she get this stuff? I asked a […]
Throwback Thursday
Going through old photos of the kids, these struck me. I took them in Pennsylvania before we moved, and they are some of my favorites. Sterling, age 2. His brother looks a wee bit like him, I think. Liberty, age five. She hasn’t changed so much… I think she looks the most like her current […]