This year, it's safe to say that in regards to how we were going to celebrate this Christmas, our expectations have been royally shattered. No pun intended.  From our Christmas card, in which our children behaved as children do best - however they feel like - to the past week and up to this very Christmas Eve, things have not gone as planned....Read More

With the birth of our fourth child, I gave our nursery a new look. It was time. Nevermind that we co-sleep with our babies, so the only time they spend in the crib is brief naps... The nursery does get lots of use as a general area of play, my Bible Study area, and diaper changing station.  The re-design included a new wall...Read More

My personal resolution was to post these Halloween pictures before Christmas. I'm just barely gonna hit my deadline.  But here we are, in all our costumed glory! Let me introduce the cast... Wyeth - age 1 - the Shark. This costume is one of those that all our kids get to be, because, well, why not? It's pretty much one of my favorite...Read More

I must be crazy because it's 11:27 pm and I'm not asleep. In fact, I'm the only person in my house who isn't. But my mind isn't rested yet. Loopy, but not quite out. I just spent an hour and a half frantically uploading photographs from June 2012 through February 2013 onto Shutterfly and then ordering them because at midnight, the 40% off...Read More

Now that I'm several weeks into marathon training,  I thought I'd do a post to update you on my progress. Using the LR Marathon Training plan, we're in the 9th week of training. The Marathon is March 1st, 2015.  Using the Non-Runner's Marathon Trainer (what I set out with the intent to follow), then I'm officially in my 1st week of training.  Since...Read More

A few Saturdays ago, we headed downtown to SoMa (South Main....) for the Cheese Dip Festival. We had free tickets and heck, why not?   I'm not a super expert at cheese dip - I rarely indulge, but it was worth a trip!  Brooklyn immediately found a face painting table and requested, of all things, an American Flag. I think perhaps it was...Read More

Every now and then we homeschoolers do something outside the house which ties nicely into what we're learning. AKA - field trip. Now if I were more social, I'd team up with other moms and their kids, but usually I take the loner approach and head out by myself. Well, me and the four kiddos. So I'm not really all that much alone,...Read More