Poor little Silas was up most of the night. Between the low grade fever and the stuffy nose, he was pretty miserable. I tried to nurse him through his fitful almost-but-not-quite-awake cranky moments throughout the night, but the stuffy nose interfered with even this most basic Mama and baby time. In the wee hours of the morning, Papa took over,… Read More »Taking Turns, Two Down
In the middle of a bit of a cold spell (it was -8 when I checked this morning), we’ve been working at keeping warm. For me, that means keeping the wood stove filled and burning hot, providing hot meals and making lots of tea for all. For the children, it means keeping the woodbox full (a daily chore for the… Read More »Keeping warm
There are moments when everything becomes crystal clear. Moments when all the clutter falls away. Moments when little sisters play perfectly together, making forts in the living room. When a jewelry making Middle finds the perfect beads to make her latest creation. When a Middle boy sits in the kitchen practicing his cello, which he reluctantly started playing just a… Read More »Moments
The Christmas frenzy has pretty much come to an end. The brown paper packages tied up with string (red and white baker’s twine) have all been opened. Most of the new gifts and goodies have found their place among the old. We still have some cleanup and sorting and place finding to do, but we have now entered into the… Read More »After the frenzy
First of all, if you get a feed of my blog posts, you got a pretty strange post. It wasn’t from me, I was hacked. WordPress caught it, but not in time to prevent the post from being sent to feed readers. Hopefully, it won’t happen again. Now, onto much more interesting things. Our oldest son is home for Thanksgiving.… Read More »Family Ornament Making
“{this moment} – A Friday ritual. A single photo – no words – capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. ” – Amanda Soule Linking up here.
My older children tease that I am the Queen of Options. We need to make a decision? I’ll usually come up with at least 3 options for us. You have a problem? I can tell you what your options are. You might not like some of them, but they’re still options. Sometimes life or other people’s decisions limits the options… Read More »Options
Our family was driving home from the Middles’s karate class and my husband and I were talking about the day’s events. I told him about an article I read discussing health, weight, and waist measurements. Which led to talking about cholesterol. Which led to talking about medication. Which led to talking about doctors. And I had a revelation. Are you… Read More »Revelation
I’m not really sure what kind of blog this is. It’s kind of a gardening, furniture painting, house decorating, homeschooling, whatever-I’m-thinking-about-right-now kind of a blog. If it looks like I lack focus and that my posts are all over the place talking about a whole lot if different things, well, it’s because I sometimes have trouble focusing, the hours in… Read More »Reducing
A couple of times a year it hits me. Maybe I trip over a toy, maybe I get all the laundry all washed and folded and try to put it away (yes, this is a rare occurrence, kind of like all the planets lining up perfectly, maybe I try to find something and it takes me 20 minutes to put… Read More »Too Much