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Before I Go To Sleep. Before You Go To Sleep. Some Stuff To Tell You.
You guys. Wednesdays are our family’s busiest days. I don’t have any big words for today. I’m pretty exhausted and the kids and I made oatmeal cream pies yesterday for tonight’s group dinner’s dessert and I really just want to go sit in the best chair in our living room and quietly eat one of those remaining delicacies in the incredibly…
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you know, this and that
It sort of feels like fall outside. And I’m completely fine with that. Last weekend Kevin and the boys had a fabulous little jaunt to a lake in Tennessee where they met Kevin’s dad and a captain with a boat and spent the day fishing together. Those two fellas of ours have just been infatuated with fishing for months now.…
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Sunday Night Preparations For a Better Week
I imagine this is true for every home that includes young children. Or old children. Or any number of humans dwelling within its walls. Sunday night often determines the pace of rest of the week. When I’m on my game, when Sunday afternoon is free and affords me time to look over my list and my lesson plans and my…
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Dear Ten Year Old Daughter of Mine.
You do not know it is a gift – but I am telling you – it IS. My daughter, I’m giving you free thought. I’m removing a tiny bit of peer pressure. I’m not giving you a phone. And I’m not granting you access to Instagram or Facebook or whatever new social snap chat IM kik ap that exists. You…
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Calico Critters – a practically perfect toy
“I call those years The Golden Age of Parenting,” she said. That’s what a fellow mom told me this weekend when I told her the ages of the bulk of my children. You know – I agree. I already think the exact same thing. Yes – home schooling FIVE kids is literally my day’s labor. But these kids are…
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Ten Ways To Have A Spotless Home
1. Never have any children. Ever. None. 2. Also, never allow any children to enter your home. If, for some unknown reason, you find yourself in a life situation that absolutely makes following the above rules impossible, you can at least implement the remaining guidelines. 3. Never allow your children to learn to cook. Keep them out of the kitchen entirely, as…
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Pinterest Projects With the Ones
My Pinterest board entitled Projects With the Ones is flooded with ideas with which I rarely follow through it seems. Recently I decided to set my talented children to task to accomplish some of these fun tasks. London was first to be given the challenge. I asked her to peruse the Pinterest board and to make a choice. She was…
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let’s talk about sex
It is an absolutely unpopular idea. Even amongst Christians. And I cannot, for the life of me, figure out exactly why. We reward all kinds of nonsensical, foolish, unworthy things in our culture. But we’re quiet on this front. There’s a serious lack of praise for two people who choose to say no to sex outside of the bonds of…
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we all scream.
Kevin has always been our family’s largest consumer of ice cream He will probably one day lose that title to a teenage son or two. However. Right now I’m afraid he might lose it to me. Ice cream has never been my top dessert choice. I’d rather have pie or cake or pudding. Until now. Every summer we pull out…
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Maple Syrup Video Cuteness
Last spring we had the opportunity to accompany Kevin on a business trip which included Pennsylvania and New York visits. It’s precisely one of the reasons I have loved this season of Kevin working from home coupled with home schooling. Kevin’s main work purpose for that trip was to get video footage for Cornell University and the New York Maple Producers for a…
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Berg wishes he was a cat.
We kept one of PIlgrim’s kittens from her last litter. I’m a sucker for orange kittens – and this guy is super cute. Like all kittens that abode at our home, one has to wonder if they will ever be able to use their own limbs as they seem to be carried about hither and yon for the first many…
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Happiest of Birthdays my Little Piper Finn
You guys. Despite our absolutely telling her to stop – this kid of ours named Piper Finnian Willow Lacey has been growing up. Right before our eyes. It hurts my heart, I tell you. Hurts my heart something fierce. She is SEVEN. I know it’s the lament of every parent at every birthday. But I just can’t believe how quickly…
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Otto can wear whatever shoes he wants. And I’ll tell you why.
In case you’ve lost track, we have six children. Our sixth child, our youngest son, at five, has been lately addicted to a pair of shoes we purchased at the last minute for a wedding he was in. A pair of black slip on shoes that are not my personal style for my child and are not anyone’s…
