Sterling was running, tripped, and skinned his knee the other day. It was the first time in his life he’d skinned a knee. Sterling is eight years old. The dear, careful child who crawled for seven months, who didn’t walk until he was 19 months old because he wanted to be good and sure he wouldn’t […]
Stinking Rotten People
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. […]
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 […]
Project Boys Church Coat
I discovered a long time ago that having a church/dress coat alongside a play coat for each child saved me a whole lot of stress come Saturday night when I found their play coat covered in mud. Since then, I’ve maintained two coats for each child in the wintertime and it’s made my life easier. […]
Sterling’s Gentle Reminder
Sterling loves to write notes. I get several every day. They usually say I’m the best mom ever. Sometimes they ask for something specific for supper. It’s his favorite method of communication… he’ll spend ten minutes writing a note instead of ten seconds saying it aloud. Who knows why? Sterling handed Blaine this note this […]
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 […]
A Perfect Gift
Sunday, Sterling presented me with a gift. He’d been hard at work for a couple days on it, and his pride in his work was immense. He’d hauled a pallet up to Blaine’s shop in the backyard, marked it, cut it with his hand saw, sanded it down, had Blaine help him drill holes for […]
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 […]
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 […]
In review: our last few weeks.
Before we went on vacation, the boys had a bit of auto maintenance to do. Sterling was assigned the role of tire pressure adjuster. Pierce supervised. It would seem Pierce did not approve of the level of noise the work conditions required when the air compressor kicked on. The day before we left, June 26, […]