a big (little) family

Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.

That’s one big bird.

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Liberty’s penmanship asked her to answer the question, “How do you think the barn swallow got it’s name?” She looked at me with utter confusion. “Because they swallowed a barn?!”

We’re getting serious now.

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Sterling needs to do math. He tells me, though, that he’s making me a spanking spoon. He’s made a pattern out of paper and is headed for his hand saw to make a wooden one now. That thing is at least 12 inches long. Who am I to mess with that?! Wonder who he plans […]

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Ruby’s trying to catch the dust she can see floating in the sunlight. We’re going to be a while. She turns four on Labor Day and can. not. wait. She’s going to drive me crazy with the asking. Eden talked of her ree-lay’-tives today. Phonetic, anyone? Then she threw arcatick in there and I began […]

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Words from the mouth of Eden.

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“Mom, I saved you some work. I kind of cost you money too, but I saved you some work!” “Howwwww??????” “I broke my bowl I used at lunch. Now you don’t have to wash it. I mean, you’ll have to buy a new one, but you won’t have to wash this one!” Such a line […]

Try again, Momma.

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Pierce discovered throwing things down the wooden stairs (we have just five of them) was great fun and incredibly loud. After playing fetch with Ruby for many minutes, he made a grievous error in judgment and decided to throw himself down the stairs. Liberty was faster than Momma. She saved the day boy. Hooray for […]

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For Pete’s sake.

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Last night when Pierce woke up in the night to eat, I fed him, put him back to bed, and checked the clock, wide awake and wondering if it was even worth going back to bed since it had to be nearly morning. It was 11:20 pm. Less than an hour after heading to bed, […]

Pizza night.

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8/10’s of the kids and cousins that were here this week. As you can see, not a one of them enjoyed the pizza. 🙂

Back to your regularly scheduled chaos.

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Vacation’s over. Guests left, dishwasher’s running, and life is back to normal. The house is too quiet. Actually, it’s not quiet at all. But it’s all our noise and none of the joyful cousins-playing noise. Boringly normal. So normal, in fact, that Blaine’s sick, Charlotte is still recovering, and Pierce is back to his mostly […]