One of our New Year's Resolutions (or something, we don't get too formal around here) was to try to break out of some of our breakfast habits or rather to work towards having better options and better breakfasts ( Read more... )

N: Who's that guy ( Read more... )

Last week was the first week of school (only four days due to Labor day) and this week is our first week of school with everything added in. Consequently I'm in SCHOOL mode so I thought I'd share some things that I'm really happy about ( Read more... )

Yesterday wasn't pretty around here. I was already worried about one kid and then another succumbed to migraine twice in one day. You can feel pretty lousy about your parenting when you initially assume that a child is being whiny and then realize in the following minutes that he actually has a migraine. And it was hot, the house didn't cool off ( Read more... )

Mere hours before I have to submit my intent to home educate my children for another year, I received official word that I was done home educating the two school aged ones for this year. I received this word approximately 14 minutes after emailing in the last of my paperwork to the kindly superintendent of homeschooling. I wasn't even late. I can't ( Read more... )

Am I the only one that mentally plays this game every once in a while? It's kind of fun and several of the events came up as topics in conversation in the last few days ( Read more... )

My family is blessed to have three parks within a two block radius of our house. Park #1 is a grassy open square with some trees lining the perimeter. Park #2 technically belongs to the school district and is across the street from the local elementary school and activity center, it includes a public pool, basketball courts and a brand new baseball ( Read more... )

If you have enough kids, you are aware of the phenomena where a nasty stomach bug has swept into the house and half the people have it or are recovering from it and the other half the family is just fine and wants to know WHY they can't make themselves a big ice cream sundae for a snack right now. These moments are trying for the mom/cook who just ( Read more... )

I am well aware of the canonical way to be an organized housewife and cook dinner every night and it's called "Menu Planning".  Sadly I have a huge aversion to "Menu Planning" but I still manage to make dinner every night and very little goes to waste in our fridge. Perhaps someday I'll grow tired of the adrenaline rush of serving a delicious meal ( Read more... )

Last night was the first night of baseball practice for both older boys. We actually didn't know that Isaac had practice until his coach called at 4pm to apologize that his email announcement of practice hadn't reached us. The coach said he understood if Isaac couldn't make it. Happily there are two other boys on Samuel's team who live in our ( Read more... )