She’s a teenager! Here are a few pearls that have exploded from Maddy’s sweet mouth this week. “My hair just needs to go away. AND. DIE!” ” I can’t help it if my stupid math teacher still lives with his mother and plays with stupid action figures and takes it out on us by giving …
My tall, dark, and beautiful big sister Jennifer is celebrating a monumental birthday today. As her husband Jeff put it, ” It’s spelled 4-0 but pronounced twenty-nine”. She’s off enjoying her day somewhere warm and sunny. This particular birthday is sometimes greeted with trepidation and dread. It can bring on sensations of traveling up and …
One of my favorite blogs to visit is Gabi’s. Awhile back I mentioned how much I love her weekly feature where she interviews a reader. Well, I’m lucky enough to be her guest today! If you’ve ever wondered why in the world anyone would choose to homeschool and what in the world they did all …
A snippet from a flier for a local elementary school’s Fall Harvest Festival: Have a Wenderful day! And thanks to everyone who visited me yesterday from BATW. That was SO much fun!!!
Hello to everyone from Blog Around the World. Thanks, Debbie, for spotlighting this little blog of mine! Sometimes a sinister black widow crawls out of the shadows of the garage and into my sneaker as I’m slumbering away in my bed. It waits for dawn when my unsuspecting stockinged foot settles into its well- worn …
Life has been a little crazy here lately. More on that another day. For now, I am another year older. Ralf and the kids whipped up some cinnamon rolls for breakfast and baked this yummy Texas sheet cake to celebrate. I was surprised with a shiny new cherry red cruiser bike just right for trawling …
"There is still no cure for the common birthday…." John Glenn Read More »
I opened the fridge this morning and found this… I don’t think this was on the list. It may be the grossest thing in my fridge. How about you. What’s the grossest thing in your fridge right now???
Guess what came in the mail this week… First we scraped some cells off the palm of Jack’s hand with a scalpel… Then we checked out what was going on in the inside of our cheeks… Also on the menu was stinky toe jam, a juicy apple sliver, a freshly plucked strand of hair, a …
This morning while this was still out And the clock read this I dusted these off And headed to this How long does it take for something to become a habit?
Yea! The cute UPS man did make it to our house with the rest of our books. I just love the smell of new books! School “officially” started back for us today. We’ve been on a little bit of a hiatus with our move and with summer. We were unschooling for awhile. But it feels …
Guess what. Remember how we’ve had trouble getting the good seats at church? The good news: We got the good seats at church. They were the REALLY good seats, the kind with the upholstered seat AND the upholstered back AND the individual armrests. The bad news: We sat in the stands because we gave the …
This week is chock full of stuff that needs to get done…by me. Like reading this in it’s entirety so that I can lead the discussion on it … tomorrow…at my house…which needs to be cleaned…before tomorrow. Instead, I’ve been trying to finish this. Not only that but I need to finish my talk for …
