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Cold Potatoes and Firetrucks

May 4, 2016 by Adrienne

We’re wrapping up school for the year! We survived! The last math lesson and English lesson were finished today, and all that remains are the final spelling tests for Sterling and Ruby. To celebrate, I ordered next year’s school books. I know, the irony. Just when I think I might have my sanity back for […]

Wishy washy potty training, dead dishwashers, and blue poop.

August 12, 2015 by Adrienne

We’re just surviving lately. It seems  we do a lot of that. It’s hot outside (But my lawn hasn’t gotten the memo with so much rain lately… going to have to address that today.) and we gave up (as in, I was going to lose my sanity and my husband addressed the issue for me) […]

Hold that tongue, child. For your own safety, just don’t say it.

June 17, 2015 by Adrienne

Pierce has said it before. He’s becoming redundant. Annoyingly redundant. Eden presented the dough she and Liberty were ready to punch down and form into buns for supper and Pierce took one look at it and exclaimed, “That looks like your belly, Momma!” Pierce is NOT my favorite person right now.   Edited to add […]

I’ll just pick one out and take it home…

June 13, 2015 by Adrienne

Liberty’s birthday is in a few weeks. She’ll be twelve. I’m at a loss as to what to give her for her birthday. She wants a horse. Unfortunately, a horse isn’t the only part of that equation. The fencing, feed, tack… yeah. It’s past my birthday budget. Ruby overheard a conversation with Blaine while we […]

Stinking Rotten People

June 10, 2015 by Adrienne

We’re home. After 10.75 hours spent driving 650 miles with seven children in one overloaded van, we made it home last night at 6:30pm. I’m pretty sure I lost a few years off my life over the course of the drive. Word to the wise: place your least talkative child/ren nearest the driver during such trips. […]

Written Conversations

March 27, 2015 by Adrienne

I love this girl… and her sense of humor. She handed Blaine this note when he was sitting in the bedroom with his phone and ran: He texted her Kindle before he left the room… the lag on the Kindle meant it arrived about the time he emerged. Still. So funny. Some days parenting older […]

Minesweeper, Real Life Version

March 27, 2015 by Adrienne

Walking through my house in the dark is a little like playing Minesweeper. You know, that computer game with hidden landmines that you mindlessly click on spaces, hoping to not land on one of the ten mines in a 100 square space? Or you decide to up the ante and you go to the 1,000 […]

Shirt… suspended.

March 7, 2015 by Adrienne

I made Pierce a pair of suspenders. The poor boy loses his pants all the time. (Or is it the rest of us that are poor? The sight of his crack has been seen by many an innocent bystander.) First, I searched for pants in a slim fitting size for him. Apparently he stands alone […]

Nobody told him it was time for sleeping.

January 11, 2015 by Adrienne

I woke up at 2:30 am with a start. Pierce had his middle finger half an inch from my nose. “You see that finger Momma?” Why yes, yes I do. Even without my glasses, I can see your finger. I grunted. “You clip it, Momma?” I do believe this is the first time I’ve ever […]

Ellie and a lime.

November 5, 2014 by Adrienne

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 […]

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