Family Portraits
Green Food
Well, the “green” Mac and Cheese, made with a little too much garlic pesto, wasn’t a huge hit with the kids. Neither was the Reuben, with sauerkraut. In fact, after Timmy, my six-year-old took a bite, he looked up at me with he big blue eyes and said, “Mom, I don’t like this sauercrap!” We…
What I’m hearing RIGHT now!
“If you do come I won’t kill you . If you don’t come I will kill you.” “I need you.” “I hate you.” “Are you going to make me stay in my room every day?” No, it’s not daytime TV. It’s Grace who’s in her room for a timeout. She recently started this, “I’m going…
Scrapbooking Today
My wonderful hubby will have the kids today, this evening and a tomorrow while I attempt a scrapbooking weekend to “catch up” on all the photos that are piling up. I only crop a couple times a year and I’m not much of a frufru cropper. I’m a power cropper with embellishments on special pages.…
Dino Footprints?
Need another clue? It’s a fossilized dinosaur print in the riverbed of a dinosaur state park! Pretty cool!
Take Me Out of the Ball Game!
Chris came home tonight from his first baseball practice. Frankly I was surprised he even signed up for baseball because four years ago he got hit by a ball in the batters box and hasn’t had the desire to play ever since…until his homeschooled best friend mentioned he wanted to play! I was reluctant at…
Warning: Field Trip Gripe Fest
Why are the things meant to be fun, like a field trip to the zoo, always a struggle? The idea was simple. Go to the zoo. Bring our nature journals and write a few things about the different buildings. It’d be an easy school day. Right? Not with my kids. I can’t remember how it…
Solving Sibling Arguements?
**Thought this photo needed some clarification! My boys were taking a fencing class and DO NOT solve arguements this way! I just wanted a catchy title!:) So cancel all those calls to DHS, please! 🙂
My Sisters is Coming to Town!
Actually she’s moving and passing through, but she has NEVER been to my home since she’s always lived 30 hours away. Now she’ll be living 5 hours away. So while me and little sis are visiting this next week I’ll be posting some oldies, but goodies! In the meantime, does anyone else have family out…
Anger Management for Six Year Olds?
I remember the first time Timmy threw his first fit. He was two or three and we were outside jumping in the fall leaves. I don’t remember what sparked it, probably that he didn’t want to come inside, but my little “Angel boy” morphed into a demon. Blazing hateful eyes, clenched fists, spitting ugly words…
Snow Storm Take Three
Okay, enough is enough! This is our third snow storm of the season, second of the new year. And it’s not like where we live to get this much snow. Sometime in January the kids play outside without their coats! Now when the snow from the ice storm two weeks ago was almost gone except for…