Don’t Blink
How did this happen? Happy Birthday my Sweet Sixteen Girl. I love you!
Being Different
There are places I just don’t fit in. As a dress wearing, homeschooling mother of nine…..sometimes I am just plain out of place. At the bank…what am I doing there anyway? One look at me and you KNOW I don’t have any money. At the car wash. Please. My car hasn’t been washed since the…
The Right List
Things I had planned to do before starting school again on January 11th: 1) Have all of the Christmas decorations put away. 2) Clean out the storage building while I’m putting away Christmas decorations. 3) Organize the school area. 4) Clean out my closet. 5) Add 20 new items to my Etsy shop. 6) Start…
New Scarf Idea
Wow! Is it Monday? My mental calendar is all messed up! It will be weeks before I know what day it is without looking at a calender 20 times throughout the day. I keep asking the kids, “What’s today?” “It’s Monday, Mom. Still Monday from when you asked me 10 minutes ago.” Sorry. But my…
An Unexpected Trip
I usually don’t post twice in a day. But as life goes….things change. Last night my father had some serious chest pain. Mom called an ambulance. Off they went. Happy New Year to them. I got the text at 4:00 AM. Dad was having a catheter (not sure of the medical term for this) at…
Ode to the Oughts
Dear 2000-2009, Farewell. I can’t believe you are over. You gave and you took. You gave me my last three children. All boys. The 8 year old is a little weird, but I’ll forgive you for that. He’s sweet. You took many of my loved ones. My grandmother in 2003, a baby the same year….
Empire State Cookie
Filmmaking. A dream of my older two kids. They have spent the day working on a contest. A 12-Hour film competition. From 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM they have been frantically working to complete a 1 minute film. One minute people. Do you know how long it takes to make a one minute movie? Longer…
Post-Christmas Clean-Up
Christmas trash and messes and leftovers. They’re everywhere. For a neat freak like me, it is a hard time. I want the kids to enjoy it all, but the Legos. Everywhere. Legos. It’s what moms do. We set aside our own need for order and sanity for the love of the children. Today we are…
Merry Christmas!
Thank you all so much for being so supportive of our family over this past year. It has meant the world to us. May the joy of our savior, Jesus Christ, surround you this season. Merry Christmas!
Cloud Storms
I just realized that I have been singing the wrong words to a Christmas carol all my life (and that’s a LONG time!) From “I Wonder as I Wander” I’m just singing along….La la la la la…..”When Mary birthed Jesus ’twas in a cloud storm….” Huh? What? What did that just say? A cow stall?…