a big (little) family

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

Weary travelers and a cold, frustrated momma.

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You know you’ve been up for a long time when Ruby asks for lunch at 9:19 am. We’re in South Dakota. The drive took 10.5 hours and we stopped twice. It doesn’t get much better than that with six kids. No one peed their pants and there was minimal crying – and none of it […]

A little road trip in the planning…

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We’re planning a trip to South Dakota. My parents have a little sheep farm there, and this week they start lambing. Can anyone say what a good life experience this is for my kids? It’s a homeschool field trip on steroids! So, we pack. We’ll head up for a week and a half, the kids […]

Dial Complete Foaming Hand Wash

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Purex sent me Dial Complete Foaming Hand Wash a few weeks ago to try out. It’s been a fun thing to try! As a bar soap die hard (becoming such after computing how much we were spending on liquid hand soap with 16 hands being washed numerous times each day) I rather looked forward to […]

Diets, physicals, and being stared back at.

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Sterling and Ruby had their yearly physicals yesterday. Sterling was one inch taller and 2/10 of one pound heavier than Ruby. He didn’t care how much; he just wanted to know he was still bigger. I think Ruby passing him up is his worst fear. The look on his face when the doctor told him […]

Discovery Center

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We went to the Discovery Center in town on Friday. We… wore the kids out on a giant gerbil wheel,played with a bit of static electricity, played doctor, used the blood pressure cuff as a doll diaper changing pad, and attempted to anchor the evening news. It was a fun day. The kids were really […]

Pierce: 15 months

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One dear boy, fresh into the world of walking practices his steps every chance he gets hauls toys around to prove brute strength and busts a bronc or two in his spare time. It’s a hard life.

Purex BABY Giveaway!

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Purex has, once again, come out with a new product for your review. New for babies is Triple Action Purex BABY. Hypoallergenic, dermatologist tested, Purex BABY is gentle on baby skin and great for baby stains.   I’ve been using Purex BABY for a couple weeks now, and while the smell is definitely baby and […]

Overachievers.

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Liberty and Eden were sent up to the woodpile in the pasture to put a week’s worth of wood in the back of the pickup. They were pretty excited to hear that the amount they threw in the pickup would last at least twice that long. Overachievers.

Christmas monkeys.

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I sewed 17 sock monkeys in the last month and a half. Ten of them were for my kids and their cousins who were here for Christmas. Fun stuff.

Need? Or want?

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Yesterday, after much deliberation and trolling Craigslist, we bought a new-to-us refrigerator. The one we’ve had for the last five years is 18 cubic feet. Small. We measured our space available, and headed out. We bought one that’s 25 cubic feet, water and ice in the door… in short, everything the one I’ve had isn’t. […]