After Thanksgiving we hauled out the Christmas decorations and decked the house for Christmas. By we, I mean my mom. She was visiting so I made her clean the house, herd the kids, unpack decorations, and tackle our tree. I […]
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About a month after moving into our new hobby farm, I told my friend Michelle that I was homesick. The whole hobby farm gig was beautiful but it was also a lot harder than we expected. It felt like we […]
I’m not a Halloween grinch. But I am close. Its a stupid holiday, really. In a nutshell – parents spend oodles of time, money, or some combo thereof on costumes only to run around and collect candy you could buy at […]
When I was growing up, my mom tried all sorts of chore systems to encourage her four children to get off their lazy rear ends and help out. Ultimately she went with this innovation: a sheet of scratch paper on […]
I am not going to lie … back to school euphoria is hard on me. In my early days of homeschooling I had a devil may care attitude about the whole thing. Back then I was excited about homeschooling and most […]
In our house, someone is usually crying. This morning it was me. My four children have this amazing ability to talk to me simultaneously. Oblivious to anyone else already talking, there is always something to show me, hurts to […]
Summer is upon us which means we are all looking for ways to keep kid occupied. I don’t know about you but we are a grand total of four days in and my kids are already too bored, too hot, […]
Once upon a time a boy and a girl met. They fell in love. They got married and moved to a state five to ten hours away from family thereby relegating themselves to a life of road trips. Idiots. Yes, […]