A blog chronicling life in our full house of six children, a husband who owns his own small business, and me: the homeschooling mom who tries to keep her head above water. There's plenty to write about here, including updates on the kids, thoughts on par... moreA blog chronicling life in our full house of six children, a husband who owns his own small business, and me: the homeschooling mom who tries to keep her head above water. There's plenty to write about here, including updates on the kids, thoughts on parenting and homeschooling, and recipes of some of our favorite foods.
This past Friday, I went through lumbar microdiscectomy for the second time in five months. Apparently I’m an overachiever because of the people who have the surgery, only 4-5% have a recurrence afterwards. Woohoo! That’s me, always trying to outdo the odds. I blame my uber-motivating parents who always pushed me to do my best…I [...]
Tonight is the night the children in our family (and countless other families, I’d be willing to bet) have long been waiting to come…since the end of August, I believe: the MUSICAL ANNOUNCEMENT NIGHT. Our church has put on annual children’s musicals that just keep getting bigger and better every year, and this summer will [...]
We had the opportunity to help friends (who also happen to be our youth pastors) out this weekend and watch their young boys overnight while they participated in the Fine Arts competition with the youth of our church. Considering over thirty students competed in some form or other, it was a busy two days without having [...]
I have found an easy way to tell when I’ve reached the ultimate in time wasting activities: It’s an app called StumbleUpon, “a discovery engine that finds the best of the web,” it proclaims. How easy can it be? I enter my likes and activities, and the app shows me random websites and blog posts that [...]
A kind and compassionate friend of mine began a wonderful ministry a couple years ago entitled Project 15. Borne out of the desire to thank veterans and other military personnel when she ran into them at various places with the thought, “If only I had a thank you note to give them” running through her [...]
“On the twelfth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me, a cake full of inedible plastic and metal trinkets!” Our family has been focusing on starting new traditions (as well as continuing the old) during this Christmas season, and today was no exception. I saw a post about an Epiphany Cake on someone’s [...]
As is customary on January 1–no matter the year–it’s a good time to look at things and take stock of the good, the bad, and even the ugly. (Don’t we all have a little ugly in our lives?) While the days clicked down on 2012 throttling headlong into 2013, I couldn’t help but assess and [...]
When I woke up this morning, I had troubling thoughts on my mind. Todd and I had had a disappointing realization the night before that still weighed heavily as I got ready for the day. In addition to that issue, other things clouded my thoughts: Christmas was looming and only eleven short days away, but [...]
Without wanting to discourage anyone from having kids–because children are a blessing beyond all others–I will say that life in a full house is probably nothing like I could have ever expected. Then again, what can you possibly expect from six kids? Perhaps it was ignorant bliss as we added one, then another, then a [...]
I’m happy to say that Hannah has taken after me in her love for baking. How fun it has been to discuss recipes for yummy treats with each other and share what we’ve found. She has a Pinterest account and has come up with so many more delectable ideas than me (who uses a boring [...]
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