It’s been a week of new babies around here. We started out last Wednesday with a baby chick hatched by a broody hen. She sat on eight and hatched one. Checking the eggs to see if others were viable was a whole other story. My house smelled like death and destruction and burning it seemed […]

Stellan wanted to color. He went to the printer, hit “copy” and with nothing in it to copy, it spit out a blank sheet of paper. He thinks the printer is a paper dispenser. And he’s figured out how to make it work for him. I can’t decide if I should be proud of his […]

Eden made a cell model for her biology class at co-op. Because she procrastinates ridiculously well, she was down to the wire, and I wasn’t going grocery shopping before it was due. Meet: the cell model, completely edible, made with entirely out-of-the-cupboards ingredients. She managed to pull extra points out of her… forced creativity, shall […]

I took the kids roller skating today. It was supposed to be just Liberty and Eden skating, and I was going to kill two hours elsewhere while they skated with friends. The trip there and a bunch of random events had us discussing changing plans and everyone skating instead. I asked if everyone had socks […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]