Sometime before we went to church yesterday, my back decided to call it quits for the day. I’m getting old. 35 is apparently the new 80. I can do nothing specific to hurt myself, and spend a day barely able to move. Day two isn’t looking much better. On the bright side, almost every gift […]
Meet Esme. AKA the Jolly Green Giant.
We got home from Virginia in one piece. There was a sketchy moment five miles from home that we very nearly didn’t stay in one piece, but Blaine did some fancy ducking and swerving and braking and screeching and we somehow drove away unscathed. I have enough adrenaline from that one I’ll have headaches for […]
Road Trip 2018: Day 8.
We’re on our way home. We’ll “boondock”… ie. camp without electricity/water tonight, likely at a Bass Pro. They are welcoming to overnight parking, along with Cracker Barrel and some Walmarts. We’ve slept in the lots of both of those this trip. Next up: Bass Pro. With propane heat, fridge, and cook stove, and a generator […]
Road Trip 2018: Day 5.
It. Hath. Snowed. This photo was from Sunday morning. Before it snowed for another 12 hours. We have between fourteen and eighteen inches, I think. It’s stopped, finally. Roads are a mess. We’re one of two campers left in the campground. Church today was cancelled. We went to visit with family and Blaine helped tow […]
Road Trip 2018: Day 2.
We’re in Virginia. We stopped at a campground near where Blaine’s parents live about 9:30 last night. We lost an hour entering the Eastern time zone, so it really wasn’t such a late night. Sloppy joes at 10:30pm was a new level of wow in feeding my family though! I’m determined to avoid buying food […]
Road Trip 2018: day one
We’re camped for the night in a little town in Kentucky. About ten minutes after my last post, Eden found gum in her hair. An hour after that, we got fuel. An hour after that, I got a text from the bank that holds the card we used at the pump. And then another text. […]
Road Trip 2018
On Saturday, the oldest of my kids’ cousins is getting married near Richmond, Virginia. When we began discussing trying to attend the wedding and see Blaine’s family, it was a puzzle on how to get motels with ten people. (They don’t let you get just one room.) We talked about renting a house. (They heard […]
Word War
The boys started a word war. To the tune of Red Necked Woman. 🤦🏻♀️ The girls wrote a rebuttal, Goober Peas style. *This may or may not be based on actual events. We have one toilet and I’ve been informed they may have created themselves an outhouse in the woods. I can’t bring myself to […]
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy thanksgiving! We spent the day yesterday at Silver Dollar City with friends. I set myself up for a whole lot of cooking to do today. But… we got it done. It was just us, and we continued our tradition to do appetizers around 11-12 and then eat turkey later. For appetizers, I made fried […]
Piano.
Back when Eden was a baby and Liberty was two, we lived in South Dakota. I owned a beautiful antique player piano. When our home’s buyer wanted the piano, Blaine said it came with the house. He didn’t want to move it to Pennsylvania. Turns out, pianos are heavy. Really heavy. For thirteen years, I […]