I heard Pierce doing who knows what in the bathroom and hollered at him to find out. He came out and informed me he was scrubbing the toilet. I asked him what he was using, fearful where this was going. “Daddy’s toothbrush.” I cracked up. Of course. “The BIG one, with black on it…” He […]
Baking. Teething. Cleaning. Procrastinating.
So far this week, we’ve had two salt spills and one basil spill. We’re well seasoned around here. Ellie’s teething. And crabby. She doesn’t know what she wants. We don’t know what she wants either. It’s a less than thrilling situation. Ruby held her hands over her chest in the cold outdoors and said she […]
Ellie and a lime.
I love limes. I eat them, peel and all, and my kids all want to love them too. Pierce and Eden are the only ones who manage to get any down, but they all want to try – even Ellie. She saw me eating one last night and begged for it. For your morning coffee-spewing […]
Elliot Adelaide: 8 months.
Dear Miss Ellie turned eight months old over the weekend. Her third tooth is fighting to emerge from her top gums, and it has her particularly clingy. She’s given my babywearing slings a good workout this past week. Ellie’s about 20 pounds, wearing 12 and 18 month clothes, sitting up and rolling every which way. […]
Communion Sunday
Sundays are stressful days. My husband holds an office in our church, teaches Sunday school, and is generally MIA an unpredictable amount. Then, there’s communion. Our church serves communion twice a month, during which a tray looking something like this: containing 50 or so tiny cups of bright purple fluid gets passed down the pew […]
Chaos is becoming the new norm around here.
Chaos. Sheer chaos. I imagine the fact that there are quite a few children running around these parts, and likely a little bit just because they are children, but chaos reigns. One dear child decided to do the heave-ho grab, wrapped arms around Pierce’s legs and picked him up in one less than smooth move. He […]
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 […]
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. […]
School, children, shopping… life.
Pierce walked up to Liberty and asked her to read to him. She was sitting on the couch with an English textbook in her lap. She agreed, and started reading… her textbook… out loud. I’ve never heard such expression in the descriptions of parts of speech. Nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives… it might as well have […]
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 […]