Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.
A few weeks ago I signed up for the Purex Insiders. Free samples and trying new stuff is always fun. They sent me a little sample of their crystal fabric softener. It smells great – and the clothes coming out of the dresser still smell great. Now, if it would just cover the smell of […]
The kids all piled in the tub for their weekly “before church” bath. (No worries. There’s a Tuesday morning “before co-op” shower too. Most of the time.) With the amount of dirt in the tub when all the water was out, I know one of two things. Either this last half of the week was […]
Meet Ms. Goat. She’d been named Blackie. It doesn’t seem very fitting to me, so for now, she’s Goat. Maybe we should have a “Name That Goat” contest. And her kid, Socks. I should have zoomed out – he really does have black “socks”. Cute, pitiful, and feisty. And currently taking up residence in […]
Ultrasound yesterday. My due date… is Charlotte’s first birthday. Won’t that be fun? Happy birthday, Baby Girl, here’s a new sibling for you. Ah, the irony of it all. No twins. He thinks. There was something else there that he couldn’t decipher, but couldn’t see a heartbeat in it so assumed it was the placenta. […]
Saturday, I bought a goat. Two, actually. A milking doe and her kid, old enough to be weaned but not. Milked before, but not recently. Cheap. Turns out, spending more might have been ok. My knee would say so anyway. I left them alone Saturday (after driving through the top of Springfield in a pickup […]
“Liberty, what unit of measure do we use to measure weight?” “Ilbs.” “Eden, if you cut something into two pieces, what is each piece called?” “Twoths? No, tooths isn’t a word. Teeth?” Oh boy, we’re learning now. Math provided a great deal of comic relief this morning!
I’ve had two family practice doctors, two OB’s, and one certified nurse midwife (and then an OB when things didn’t go my way) for prenatal care. I’ve spent hours and hours in waiting rooms, waiting for my two minutes with my doctor. This time, it’s gonna be different. This baby’s gonna be born at home. […]
Nine years ago today, I drove 66 miles from my job as a nanny on Long Island, got lost more than a few times, and went to a church in New Jersey for the second time. I’d been there once before, swore I wouldn’t do that and get so very lost again, and yet, two […]
Decided to teach Charlotte to nap in her bed instead of in the swing. Turns out, it’s all my fault we’ve gone through more batteries than I can count. She went right to sleep – and is still sleeping an hour later. Day three of napping in her bed. That was easier than I thought […]
Why is it that when a child leaves the step stool in front of the bathroom sink (and this is all together common around here) I will just stand on the stool to wash my hands or brush my teeth? As I was brushing my teeth, elevated another foot in the air, bending in half […]
