a big (little) family

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

My funny for the day.

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Sterling got his first Lego set for his birthday. Guess what I did this morning? I built everything in the book so his little farm would be complete. Guess what Ruby did? Took them all apart. *Sigh.* Then, much to my chagrin, Sterling did this:   You see, living where we do, where tie down […]

A letter.

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Five years ago tomorrow, I woke up with a start at 6:30am. I wondered if I was possibly in labor, dinked around our apartment, showered and wondered if it was The Day. 39 weeks and 2 days pregnant, I was afraid to get my hopes up. I called a friend at 9am, she said she […]

Does is matter?

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Sterling asked me this afternoon why bugs don’t like to die. We got into a discussion about the fight for life God gave each of us. “But we all have to die, when we’re old, because we sin,” Sterling said. Contemplating this heartbreaking reality from a mother’s perspective, I sat there quiet for a minute. […]

Modified English.

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Teaching simple subjects and simple predicates to a somewhat confused Eden this morning, the conversation went something like this: “My dress is pretty. ‘Dress’ is the simple subject, the noun. ‘Is’ is the verb, the simple predicate” I said. Ruby was listening in, and she piped in, “My dress is pretty. Dress, pretty, and thank […]

Hair Dilemma.

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Two of my dear daughters, one who apparently wants to remain nameless stood in line for my scissors yesterday. The face painting was not of my doing. I am not that talented. Ruby wanted her hair as short as Sterling’s. Um, no. But how’s a couple inches? Liberty wanted hers cut too. I made her […]

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Is it still an accident when she forgot to pull up her dress and pull down her panties but sat on the potty and peed through them? I’m saying no. Another accident-free day. Charlotte is my hero. You know, as much as an easily potty-trained kid can be a hero. She made my life easier, […]

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Potty Talk

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After a couple weeks of working on this at home, this sweet baby girl just completed (without accidents!) her first day as a diaper-free 19 month old in public. Hooray! Just in case though, we took four pairs of extra panties for Charlie, three dresses for Charlie… and a clothing change for momma too. I […]

A berry (counter) productive picking.

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I decided to pick mulberries from our tree this morning and I had a hardworking crew of four to help. Some pickers, however, were counterproductive. Lesson for today: take the ones who don’t care for mulberries. More berries land in the bowl that way.

Oil, meet water. Let’s just try to get along.

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We had a case of girl bites boy today. Having just discussed with friends biting and thinking back to the only other time I’ve had to deal with the issue, I told boy to bite girl back. When teeth marks were evident but tears weren’t, I asked if he was sure he’d bitten her as […]