Saturday was Ruby’s 8th birthday. She breaks my “first five of the kids all look nicely spaced” run each year. We go from 13, 11, 9, 7, 5… 4, 2, and a baby to a free for all. Charlie turns six in a couple weeks and Pierce will be five the week after that. I can only […]
TOS Review: CursiveLogic
When a review opportunity from CursiveLogic for their CursiveLogic Workbook came up, the only dilemma I faced was which dear child to have work on this. Sterling and Ruby both learned cursive last year without a curriculum as I taught them A-Z, one letter at a time. It was a painful, tedious, and tear-inducing process. […]
I’ll just pick one out and take it home…
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 […]
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 […]
Pool noodles, disillusioned children, and long pauses…
Pierce informed me his name is Angel. Someone has an elevated and somewhat distorted view of himself, I’m thinking. Solution: Charlotte and Ruby share a double bed. One dear daughter is a bit of a… bed hog, shall we say? I stuck a pool noodle under the sheet and mattress pad the full length of […]
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 […]
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 […]