Days of Magic and Mud Everywhere

Sunday is my menu planning/grocery list making day. In the afternoon or evening when we've settled down from the day's activities, I...

Jason was remarking last night that he feels that the Lord is giving him/us "a good season". It's been a hard few years, and t...

So here's my list of books read in 2011. This is taken from memory, so I could have left something out or gotten the timing wrong on a f...

We are moving in two weeks so this will probably be the last you will hear from me for awhile. There's so much I want to write about,...

*Bonnet tip to Ceridwen for the title of this post. It was just too appropriate* Let me begin by making one clarification. I want to be ...

Organization has always been a hobby of mine -- that is not to say that I'm even moderately organized, it's just something that I ha...

We had a nice Thanksgiving. Busy. Split between families (which we're planning to do away with -- the splitting part, not the families...

I'm up while everyone else in the house is asleep. They're all tucked away, and I'm up waiting on the cinnamon rolls I baked for...

Warning: If you read Farmer Boy to your sons, they may want to become farmers. Joel now wants to be a farmer. And he is practicing for it....

Jack: Hello, and now do you like my hat? Me, trying to play along: No, I do not like your hat. Jack: Yes you do!

I have been reading instead of blogging. I have a lot that I want to write about, but sometimes it's a little too laborious to write a ...

I have no pictures of the cake. None. Not one. I do have a video of us singing to Jack and him blowing out his candles, which I may be ab...

I don't know why I always do this, but I always find about 3 books to bring home from the library and try to read them. When am I going...

My mom helped my boys make caramel apples last week, here are some pictures. They were delicious but we weren't completely satisfied wi...

I am about half way through Parents and Children by Charlotte Mason. It has been just the right thing for me right now. With subjects such...

I am reading five books right now. I think five is a good amount to keep going as I am not usually in the mood to read the same book night ...

Right now I am working on a system of regular Bible reading, and regular Nature Study. I would love to do the Outdoor Hour Challenge. The ...

After what seems ages of bemoaning the fact that I have no Internet, I finally had the thought that surely someone in this great Age of Blog...