The rain has finally stopped, and signs of drying out are beginning, but not without a whole lot of fun in the mud and water that has occurred after over seven inches of rain during the month of February. The ditches were full, and the kids had a blast playing in the water. Sterling apparently […]
Boys.
Boys are a different breed. After growing up in a house of girls almost exclusively with just my sister and me except for a brief period, this is a whole new ball game for me. Sterling broke me in easy with his love for quiet and books and academia and working with his hands. Pierce […]
Elliot Adelaide: 4.
Today, Elliot turned four years old. It’s crazy to think how fast that time has gone. We celebrated with her requests: chicken nuggets and fries, salads, and angel food cake with strawberries and ice cream. A friend of hers came over for the afternoon and they played and played and when she was gone, Elliot […]
Lookalikes.
I came across this photo, circa 2009. It’s Sterling. It looks so much like Stellan it’s uncanny. I can’t find a photo of Stellan with the same pouty face. He makes it too. But this is Stellan, at the same age. Memory lane is sweet. And sad. But mostly sweet.
Valentine’s Crafts and Icy Field Trips
This week, with co-op cancelled with the threat of impending snow, we ventured out to the aquarium. Two days earlier, we’d slid and skidded our way home when the storm hit during a birthday party in town. I tell you, I grew up in snow and cold but this ice business is foreign. I barely […]
Eden Rayne: 13.
Today my second born turned thirteen. Holy cow. Two teenagers. I always looked at moms of older kids and thought, “Man, they are seasoned. Experienced. Old.” Ha. Here I am, feeling old and yet not, not feeling like I know what I’m doing yet. But. I’m so thankful for this girl. She’s a worker, a […]
These are the days.
We finished the vomit bug, spent several days well, went to co-op yesterday, and got the dreaded news last night that a child at co-op had been found to have lice. Oh. My. Word. Please no. I went into full panic mode. I have a lot of heads of long hair that cause an all […]
Stellan Wyatt: 2.
Today Stellan turned two years old. It’s the first second birthday I’ve ever encountered in my child without a newborn in my arms (or in the case of Charlotte and Pierce, a one year old) or a looming due date. I felt like I ought to be sad. But I wasn’t. So strange. We began […]
In the words of Elliot
“Momma! It’s snowing! Will there still be snow on Saturday?” I told her I didn’t know. She asked why I didn’t. I told her because only God knows that. “I wish you were God.” Think fast. “I can’t be God or I wouldn’t be your momma.” Wait for it. ”Yeah, you cant be God, because […]
Such the life.
Liberty spends as much of her days as she can get away with in the barn these days. She had to write a report for her Spanish class on her family. Aggie and SoDak made the report, front and center. Blaine’s parents and one of his sisters visited this past weekend. They stayed in a […]