You know you’re a mother when… …you hide with the phone the moment it starts ringing. …you regularly move little shoes to the right feet. …you don’t wear white, not for fear of your own spills, but for fear of little hands. …conversations about poop and pee are totally common in everyday life. …you wipe […]
False Advertising.
Our garden is producing well for us these days. I have piles of squash and green beans to do something with – soon. Tonight, Blaine came in with a pepper. He handed Ruby a bite. She begged for more. I told him he should have given her a spicy pepper. He had. We aren’t spicy […]
Hello, welcome, yes, and excuse me while I find some clothes.
The flag keeps falling off of our mailbox. In trying to fix it without making a sharp edge (ie. using wire) I used two bread plastic bag clips, clipped onto the peg of the flag that sticks inside. I haven’t decided if it was clever or trashy – but it worked. Hello Mrs. Mail Lady. […]
Holiday surprise.
They must think that without coffee, we’re incapacitated. I wonder where they got that idea.
Murphy’s Law?
We burn wood for heat. Come about now, when the heat is enough to make Sterling question why on earth we’re cutting wood for heat, we start cutting for next winter. So when Blaine read a CraigsList ad from a family who had a bunch of trees that need to come down, we started on […]
Stink.
Yesterday during the worship service at church Charlie thrust her little finger in the air and said, “THAT came out of MY NOSE!” Watch me sink into the pew just a bit and pretend that didn’t just happen. Pierce is fully pee-trained. It’s going fabulously. (Well, except for when Daddy gave him chocolate milk and […]
From the mouths of…
Last night, as I walked the halls of the church where the kids have been attending VBS, I overheard the following conversation: Older gentleman: “How are you?” Five(ish) little girl: “Em-barr-assed.” Older gentleman: “Aww, why?” Five(ish) little girl: “I passed gas.” Older gentleman, after a moment of silence during which I can only assume, not […]
It’s a zoo.
Since the friends we went to the zoo with here in South Dakota are far more on the ball than I am (While I took pictures, my camera still holds them captive.) I’m going to steal her photos and share them all with you. Thanks, LC. My kids love the head boards. Or whatever you […]
Seeing things.
You know the moment when, after spending over an hour up in the middle of the night with a small child, you finally get them tucked in, and you’re walking towards the bedroom? When you know that, while the house is mostly clean, there’s still a good chance of a lego or doll or toy […]
Babe, you’re old.
Liberty was asking what she ought to do about her history project for co-op. She’s supposed to ask an “older relative” about how the streams, rivers, terrain, etc. were back when they were young. She was confused on who she ought to talk to. Eden told her to talk to Daddy. Blaine was oh so […]