This morning I found my brand new $50 gallon jug of just-for-diaper laundry detergent jug on it’s side. I scraped up a quart of the liquid gold, (ok, at the current price of gold, not quite, but it sure felt like it!) cried over spilt detergent, (yeah, no, not literally. But if I were a […]
A good looker. Or finder. Or something like that.
Eden lost the spoon she’d taken with her to scrape the scraps to the chickens tonight. It was dark, and she and Liberty asked for help in finding it. “Am I going to go out there and immediately find it? How well did you look?” “We really looked for it. It’s not out there,” Eden […]
We’ve got a chicken thief on our hands. We’re down five hens in two days. I found a hole in the chicken wire. Why do these things always happen when Blaine is gone? Fixing fence is a skill I (never wanted to, but) can add to my resume. Sharpshooter is next.
Going green. Or keeping some, at least.
We’ve been discussing energy and resource conservation. You know, the “The electric bill is how high?!” discussion. My children are not the best at turning lights off when they leave the room. It drives me crazy. Our whole house will be lit up like a Christmas tree and no one would be home if the […]
Warning:
Polyurethane and soot creates an interesting Dalmatian effect removed only by something stronger than soap and water.Sweet friends watched my kids today while I put a coat of polyurethane on eight stools. Then tonight I cleaned the chimney. And then I searched for paint thinner.
Insensibilities.
My kids are sleeping underneath the kitchen table tonight. Their beds lie cold and empty while four children, sensible often, choose to very insensibly sleep on a cold ceramic tile floor. Why? I haven’t figured that out yet. They think it’s fun and it didn’t hurt anything – besides, perhaps, their backs. And shoulders. And […]
I lose. Again.
Pierce cried and cried and cried unless I held him. Fed up and trying to make supper, I put him in his bed. Never made him nap in there before. (I don’t even make him sleep in there at night most of the time, who am I kidding?) He went to sleep immediately. Pierce: 1. […]
Huh, what?
Just in case my statement of my kids lack of sports knowledge seemed a bit exaggerated… Pierce has a sweatshirt on with a giant orange basketball on it. Liberty saw it and said, “Baseball!”. I said “No…” straightening out his shirt to show the bright orange basketball. “Oh! Soccer!” Really now. Next up: a lesson […]
Football is not this boy’s game.
We borrowed Facing the Giants from the library and the kids and I watched it a few nights ago. We don’t watch any sports around here. Blaine has no interest, neither do I. So when my kids say football or basketball, I check to see. It could very well be soccer or baseball they are […]
Just laugh…
You know that moment that you are headed for bed, walk past a mirror and the image makes you stop and gawk, it’s so bad? And then you relive your day, realizing all the people that saw you like that? It’s grand. I showered, threw my hair up, and got busy. Yikes. Add chasing the […]
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