Yesterday, we closed on our house. Half an hour of signing our life away and handing over one very large (in my world, anyhow!) hard-earned check, and we have keys! We did that over Blaine’s lunch hour, then Blaine in his van and me in mine with the kids headed to lunch quick before Blaine […]
Random thoughts on a rainy day.
I made oatmeal for breakfast this morning. After the kids were done, all four, ages 20 months to 6 11/12ths years hopped up, scraped their bowls and put them in the dishwasher. A mother of eleven told me once, several years ago, that those were the hardest years. Now, a few years later, my olders […]
You know those people that have a nickname for their babies long before they are born? Peanut, squirt, munchkin, junior – you know. I’ve always wanted to have a name/sex determined long before birth, but it never happened. Two of our babies we knew the sex of – and those were the two we took […]
Happy May! It always seemed, growing up, like spring had arrived once May rolled around. Here, spring has arrived, say, the middle of March. I’ll take it. Everything is going well as far as the house goes. No big surprises; we’re actually ready to close. Inspections done, appraisal’s done, roof is re-shingled, financing is cleared. […]
We’re under contract!
Ah, the excitement. I’ve spent far too much time on the phone lately, but finally… we found a house, made an offer, accepted their counter offer, and we’re under contract! So very cool. I copied/saved photos, just to give you a little mini tour, but first, some details. It’s 6 miles from town, nine miles […]
Why, oh why?
Why, when my children starting “playing church”, do they open up to, of all things, Song of Solomon? Then why, when they start giggling, didn’t I keep my back turned and ignore all? Instead, Liberty sees my mortification, asks why my face looks like that, and I have to answer. “Um, Song of Solomon is […]
Ah, nothing like potty training and spring to supply blog material! Ruby’s doing… I’m not sure. She’s holding it until she has something on her behind. Does that count? It shows she’s ready, but other than that, little successes. I gave her chocolate milk to spur her to go – is that bad??? She did […]
Sterling got a new look.
Little Man has the roundest head possible, needed a haircut, and I was curious. So… I think he pulls it off quite nicely. At age two. And when I’m sick of it, we’ll 1/4″ the rest of it. I did get a “rebellious” comment – never occurred to me that it is rebellious, but maybe. […]
Used up the last of my carpet spray cleaner Monday. Started potty training Ruby Tuesday. (Wow, did that come out funny. Leaving it.) Wondered Wednesday if she’s too young. Put a diaper on her before bed after no accidents all day (that I found…). She drenched her diaper just minutes later. I think she might […]
Grand revelations of what I really don’t know.
Went to MOPS today. The speaker talked about the 5 love languages, then we each took a “quiz” to name our own love languages. Turns out, your love language changes when you have kids. Somewhere along the line “Acts of Service” hit the top of my list, when it was at the bottom before. Seemed […]
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