I am happy to report that we survived the first week of school. Phew. It was great, actually. The kids were ready to go back, Bram was ready for them to go back (because how much can you really enjoy being beat up by your older brothers) and I was certainly ready to go back. My house is staying cleaner, there are far fewer dishes, and the boys are ( Read more... )

I don't know about you, but my kids are going crazy. CRAAAAAZZZZZYYYY!!! I don't know if it's because they've had too much to do (highly unlikely), not enough to do (probably?), or just because they need some time in structure and away from each other, but they have reached new levels of craziness that even I was not aware that they could reach. ( Read more... )

It's been forever since I've been on here. Eight months, actually. So not a year (which seems really, really long) but still. Long enough. It's easy to forget when you don't come on here ( Read more... )

It's fall. As in today. Yesterday was kind of chilly, but today it's definitely fall. It's about time, really. Halloween was disturbingly warm. My kids didn't need jackets (in fact I think they were hot at the beginning) and walking around in short sleeves when it's dark trick or treating just seems wrong. My kids have been OD'ing on their candy ( Read more... )

I think one of the hardest things about not keeping up on LJ is that I miss important events from people's feeds. By the time I read them, it's been so long I feel kind of ridiculous commenting on them. But I do read. And yeah. I hate missing ( Read more... )

Well, we had our last officially scheduled summer activity last night. The monster truck rally at the county fair. Totally redneck, I know. It's not something we would normally do, but the boys loved it as I knew they would. I try to expose them to all kinds of things, and I figured this was at the county fair and therefore probably tame as well as ( Read more... )

But no more. Because although I never post on Facebook (I'd much rather be a lurker) whenever I post on Instagram I feel like I've just done my duty for documentation, and I feel that it's extremely lame that my pictures (never worth 1,000 words, by the way) make me feel like because I've posted one every few days or once a week or something have ( Read more... )

Every summer I have my kids take swimming lessons. Luckily they all like it, but even if they didn't I don't think it would be an option. Being able to swim is the only way to be safe around water, even if you don't like to swim. There's just too much danger around water if you don't know how to swim. I myself do not love swimming, but Mat does, so ( Read more... )

Our landscaping is finally finished. Whew. That was not for the faint of heart. First of, this kind of thing is expensive, which is totally a no-duh situation. Also, it takes forever, which is also a no-duh situation. But it really looks nice and we're so happy with it. Luckily our grass was really nice, it was just the flower beds surrounding the ( Read more... )

I debated about what to call last week. Here were some close contenders ( Read more... )