Liberty turned 12 last Friday. It’s hard to believe. It just seems so big. I remember being 12! She asked if she could make her own cake with the Care Bear pan. Most definitely! She picked out a recipe for white cake from my mom… A cake of my childhood. She made herself cream cheese […]
Meet: Demanding Child and the One Who Does Her Bidding
Since traveling to South Dakota and home again, Ellie has been a bear. Naps have been scattered and much fought and bedtime is a screamfest. She hates her bed, she wants to sleep with someone else, and she’s a determined sort in her fury when she doesn’t get exactly what she wants. I’m pretty sure […]
Written Conversations
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 […]
Mathematics, Dried Milk Crusts, and Problematic Peanut Butter Cups
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 […]
My children are growing up. We’ve been in this same stage of infancy, toddlers, and small children for so long it suddenly snuck up on me. We haven’t yet dealt with what one friend described as ‘teenage angst’, but things are changing. It’s fun and scary all at the same time. Ellie decided she desperately […]
An Impromptu Book Report, from Liberty
In an effort to encourage my children to read often – and to read old literature, I assigned them a book report. A new report on a new book is due every two weeks, and every other one, for my two older girls, is to be from a book that can be aquired free for […]
TOS Review: My Student Logbook
Liberty has been using My Student Logbook with the horses cover for the last month and a half or so. Tracking her schoolwork and chores, My Student Logbook is a fun company offering a student planner in a variety of fun prints to help your student be organized. Offered in a dated for the school […]
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 […]
Travels and an Electronic Rooster
Thursday afternoon, I started writing a new blog post. This is what I wrote: Tomorrow, bright and early if I have anything to say about it, the kids and I load up and drive 10 hours to visit my parents in South Dakota. Elliot has yet to make the trek and meet Grandpa, and we […]
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 […]