We’re getting ready to go to South Dakota. Blaine will stay home for work… and jury duty!… while the kids and I head north for two weeks. We leave Monday. Of course, I got a chest cold, then Liberty woke up and got sick in the night and now Stellan is threatening pink eye. Feels […]
Liberty Skye: Fifteen.
Miss Liberty Skye turned fifteen this week. We spent a good chunk of her birthday in the DMV making history as she took her written test to get her driving permit. She passed on the first try and walked away thrilled with the new privilege. I let her drive my big 12 passenger van the […]
Happy birthday, Blaine.
Blaine celebrated his birthday this last week. Or rather, we celebrated Blaine. I’m not sure he was thrilled at being yet another year older. But Eden busied herself all day making apple pies, and Ruby managed to crowd just enough candles onto one pie. The new ones happened to be mostly pink and purple but […]
Goat Tying Champion
Liberty attended Rodeo Bible Camp last week. She learned goat tying, and in the end, with the accumulated scores and learning she did that week, she walked away with the goat tying champion belt buckle. Such. The. Thrill. We had to make a smaller hole in her belt, the buckle is so big. In Blaine’s […]
Project: boys room.
A couple days ago, I was looking at the drop cloth room divider that makes up a wall of the living room and creates a bedroom for the boys. I’ve hated it for, oh, all six years it’s been there. But it worked. I decided to make a new one. Better. Prettier. Less… temporary. Since […]
Rocks, rashes, and reptiles – and thankfulness.
Blaine is home from his trip, the garden is growing, the horse is sick, and I have a wicked case of poison ivy. Good times. Oh, and another boy boasts another head wound from a very large rock. This time it’s Sterling’s turn. You’d think they’d learn to leave them alone. Pierce still has a […]
Garden is planted. Finally.
Today, I rotor tilled the garden. Finally. Finally as in it got done… and finally as in I did it myself for the first time, I suppose. I am not impressed with Missouri soil. I shan’t be volunteering for this task again. Blaine is gone for work through the weekend, we finally have enough horse […]
Happy Birthday, Sterling Blaine
On Tuesday, Liberty rode with a friend to Michigan. She’s spending five days with Blaine’s sister and her family – complete with much-loved cousins – for five days. We miss her here dreadfully. It makes me think on the years to come with children growing and leaving home with absolute dread and horror. I’m not […]
Done.
We. Are. Done. With the last textbook closed and the last co-op class finished, all that’s left is the field trip day of fun today. I cannot tell you how amazing it felt yesterday morning to just get up and have the entire day before us. One child said in amazement, “We just get to […]
Elliot Adelaide and the Closet Raid
This dear girl loves life. Elliot spends her days playing “Mom and Dad” and even has Stellan convinced and playing along. Her dolls have names and ages and are loved dearly. He has taken one from Sterling’s playbook. Yes, he’ll play. He’s the dad. He’ll see you later, he’s going to work. And then he […]