When you have to get up at the butt crack of dawn…. And you have to get dressed and be out the door before the sun is even fully up…. And in that little window you have fed 2 children, dressed 2 children and hussled 2 children into the car…. Then you end up being […]

Last year I homeschooled Anna Grace.  I didn’t talk about it much on the blog but it was a decision I made after looking at all my options and deciding that I wasn’t too fond of my choices or couldn’t afford other choices.  We had good days, we had bad days but one thing remained […]

Okay… so here’s the deal.  My daughter does this…thing.  A thing that I’m sure she wouldn’t do if she wasn’t an only child for the first 6 years of her life and desperate for friends.  The thing is this…  My daughter walks through the house having imaginary conversations with friends or imaginary people or whatever.  […]

Today is my knitiversary.  Six years of knitted bliss.  I learned to knit on August 13, 2004 while waiting for impending doom at the hands of Hurricane Charley.   Woo Hoo!!

Maybe you can help me.  I can’t figure this out for the life of me. Some background… before I got pregnant with Jack Henry, I weighed 152# and wished I’d lose a little weight.  But the Laffy Taffy and the chocolate was just too good to pass up and so… I stayed pretty consistent at […]

Came home today to discover that Sara the Rescue Cat had rolled a yarn cake of 100% silk yarn through the house.  This is the yarn that is attached to my Ishbel project, thankyouverymuch!  I will now be spending many, many hours getting lint and pet hair off of it.  GRRRRR. If Sara the Rescue […]

She may have a temp of 101.6 but she still knows how to boss people around.  Hope Baby Girl feels better soon.

My friend Scott linked a blog to my facebook wall today.  I’ve gone through the whole thing and I just love it.  Go check out Mila’s Daydreams. Edited to add:  If you click on Behind the Blog you can read a little bit about the writer and see a cool video featuring all of the […]

My daughter’s got it….bad. Anna Grace has decided that she needs to start kissing boys.  She’s been kissing Isaac and Noah.  She apparently has considered kissing Daniel and I even heard Jeremy’s name mentioned once.  I have tried to discourage this.  I did ask her why she kissed Isaac and she said “because I love […]

My friend Becky posted this on Facebook and it makes me laugh every time I think about it…. Sinners can reform but stupid is forever. That’s little tidbit has just been improving my outlook!