Trying to maintain my sanity and live to blog about it.
Confession: I had to restart the fire in the wood-burning furnace today. Twice. I started it, checked to be sure it went. It did. Went down (too many hours) later and it was out. Started it again. It lit. Went down (too many hours) later and it was empty and out. Again. But I fed […]
Every homeschool blog I look at looks idyllic. Orderly, labeled, color-coded shelves of perfectly graded schoolbooks, desks free of pencil marks (and dust), and charts on the walls to tell each perfectly groomed student which minute of which hour they should be doing their 3rd grade Geometry. Oh, to be so organized. But I’m not. […]
The kids got to see a lamb born. As far as I could see, one potentially awkward future conversation just got a whole lot easier. I thought. The question about how the lambs came to be was next. I mentioned rams. They said Grandpa didn’t have any rams out there. I assured them he must […]
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 […]
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. […]
Last week, I began one morning by frying what turned out to only be the keyboard of our laptop (An $18 fix if all goes according to what I think. Not holding my breath on that one though.) Today, it was my pajamas. Yep. I squatted down to change Pierce’s diaper first thing this morning […]
