That moment when you walk into the kid’s bedroom to find your three year old on the top bunk, poised to jump onto the mattress on the floor. It looks like fun. It looks like she could get hurt. I paid a lot of money for that mattress. It looks like fun. Then, upon finding […]

Last Friday night, after a disastrous trip to the park that ended in me carrying two babies and one 12” bike a mile… that was a mile in my shoes no one would care to walk, let me assure you… I got home, exhausted. Knowing I still had a coat of paint to put on […]

As we were headed out the driveway this morning, the conversation in the backseat was quite intriguing. Ruby commented she’d seen something in the yard. “It’s not a cow and it’s not a horse. I think it’s a doose.” Sterling replied, quite confused, “A doose?!” “No, a doose. Da Da Da Doose! Or a deese. […]

Blaine tells me I need to finish the wedgie story. Ruby had complained of her panties bothering her, saying every time she readjusted, they defied gravity again. I told her they must be backwards. She argued that they weren’t, the tag was not in the front. I checked, and said, “You’re right, they aren’t backwards. […]

One of the risks of being super-skinny: You find out, six hours into your day, that your underwear are on sideways. It’s a dangerous wedgie of a proposition. Just ask Ruby. Because this definitely does not happen to me.

For the last three weeks, we’ve been raising  broiler chicks in the garage. For the last one week, I’ve been smelling the broiler chicks in my house. It smells like a barn in here. While two in diapers are other random children leaving messes in other random places, my house doesn’t always smell so rosy. […]

I’ve been cleaning. Call it spring cleaning, or whatever you will, but I’m determined to find ways to organize better, clean things up, help this house maintain on it’s own. Today, I was working in the bathroom. I touched up the paint on the walls, repainted the trim, and took all the doors off our […]

During a discussion regarding the mockingbirds that are taking up residence in our trees lately, Blaine told Sterling that they copy whatever they hear. He demonstrated with a whistle, and he and the mockingbird had quite the interlude. Sterling, however, was confused. “But how can they copy it? Do they have copy machines?” My kids […]