Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.
The conversations in the back of my van went something like this: “Why do boy Indians have long hair?” “Because they don’t have time to cut it.” “Charlotte, you’re a big baby. You don’t need toys in the van. You can play with them in Sunday school. Pierce is a little baby. He needs them […]
My kids managed to pick up one of those lovely sayings that I’ve so enjoyed NOT hearing since they are homeschooled and a bit more sheltered from such things. Ruby’s version: “How old are you?”“28.”“What color is the sky?”“Blue.”“Momma blew up! Isn’t that funny?” Oh, so funny. Eden, coming at me with the real version, […]
Pierce wanted to be in school this morning. Fourth grade math and learning to read provided him an adequate challenge, to be sure. Child genius? Maybe not. Something about eating the erasers doesn’t scream ready for school.
We have Belle the Bull Mastiff visiting for a few days. Today’s conversation with Charlotte, who’s back to not being so sure she likes Belle, went like this: “Tractor! Tractor say ‘woof woof’!” “Um, no honey. Dogs say ‘woof woof’. Brady says ‘woof woof’.” Remembering Belle, hanging out on the front porch while Liberty sat […]
In a week where the funniest thing that happened (though not funny at the time) was Pierce reverting to his old ways of losing half his feeding at an inopportune moment, resulting in curdled I-don’t-want-to-know-what landing squarely on my face, things have been pretty tense around here. Right about now, that statement about the mother […]
Today we went to a PE class put on for homeschoolers by a local rec center. It was a first for us, but I must have slept well last night, because when I got up and the reminder email was in my inbox, we got ready and went. Another first that I’m still rather in […]
Someone I know, ahem, who just happens to be seven months pregnant, told me this story the other day. She’d made supper, mixing cheese in with meat, and announced to her family that supper was moments away. Just waiting for the cheese to melt. And waiting. And waiting. Finally, the husband of my dear sister […]
As of 9:49 pm, my eleventh load of laundry was in the washing machine, only four bath towels remained on the laundry room floor, school work for the day is done, the house is picked up, all six children had received three meals today and are now in bed, Blaine is still gone at his […]
You know those days when nothing is funny, no matter how you look at it? I’m having one of those. I have about 10 loads of laundry to do. (No exaggeration, I switched sizes on three kids and have all their “new” laundry from storage to wash, plus the weekend’s, plus a set of wet […]
Charlotte woke me up in the night, blanket in one hand, cup in the other. Slightly sobbing, she handed me the empty cup and asked me to fill it. She dropped her blanket, and when I picked it up, I noticed it wasn’t her blanket at all, but a silky nightgown. She took it, held […]
