a big (little) family

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

Snow Ice Cream

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Snow Ice Cream 1 gallon freshly fallen snow 1 cup white sugar 1 Tbsp. vanilla 2 cups milk Send five year old to collect snow. Pick out the straw she missed when gathering “only clean, fresh snow”. Mix everything together, serve immediately. Mmm. One of the better things about a new batch of snow. Next […]

Does it smell like smoke in here?

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Don’t answer that. It does. Bad. Without going into the gory details, our chimney got a good scrubbing today by yours truly. Have I mentioned that I’m missing my husband? 4.5 hours later, I’m certain of only two things. 1. I did that right. Painfully so. 2. My talents lie elsewhere. To the dear neighbors, […]

Old McDonald, stanza 2.3, repeat, repeat, repeat.

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Only when you are two can you be screaming like someone was trying to kill you and singing “E-I-E-I-E-I-E-I… (continue for at least five minutes)” in the same 20 second time frame. Being female helps with that scenario too. Blaine had better get home soon. My dark chocolate candy bowl is rapidly depleting. Stress has […]

It’s rather like herding cats.

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Blaine has said on more than one occasion that trying to go shopping with our children and keeping them heading in the same direction is like herding cats. I always have protested. It’s not that bad. But today I took them to the mall, skipped the stroller because I decided they’d been cooped up so […]

Things I’ve learned this week:

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Things I’ve learned this week: Ruby doesn’t know she’s whining. She just does it. It’s like she needs noise. Next time, I’m turning on the radio and waiting to see if she stops. Charlotte is like no other baby I’ve had. Between 7 and 8 pm, she starts whining, then escalates to a cry if […]

When Daddy is away the girls will… find something, anything, to keep busy.

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I would have said that the kids were who keeps things busy around here. But it turns out, Blaine and his projects are major contributing factors. This morning, breakfast was over and we were sitting looking at each other wondering what was next. Ugh. So, off we went. Ingredients for homemade pizza for supper and […]

Just what you don’t want to hear.

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“Mom, I rocked Charlie so hard in her car seat that it fell off the table. It’s a good thing she was buckled in!” I’d gone out to get ribbon out of the tote in the shed. That’s the next blog. Eden had been left with Charlie sleeping in her car seat. She’d been instructed […]

Let them eat cake? Or celery?

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Blaine left this morning for his three-week trip to CA for the spring/summer catalog photo shoot. My first thought, other than loneliness, is to diet a bit and see if I can lose a few pounds while he’s gone and cooking duties are pretty much whatever I feel like. My next thought is to make […]

Fun email, pasted here and commentated on by yours truly.

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1. I think part of a best friend’s job should be to immediately clear your computer history if you die. Facebook, Facebook, gmail, Facebook… incriminating only in where my time disappeared. 2. Nothing is worse than that moment during an argument when you realize you’re wrong. 3. I totally take back all those times I […]