My birthday is today…:) I am 29 and holding! LOL Nope..not going to share how much extra I’m “holding”. It’s enough.
It’s been a very special birthday already. My children and husband gave me a bike and a very girlie helmet. Girlieness is very important when you are the only girl in a 6 member [...]
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Happy Birthday to me!
Posted in general musings/writings, large family, life with my children on May 13, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As promised…the second part entitled “Water Damage”
Posted in general musings/writings, large family, life with my children on April 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »
So, in my last post I left off where we had just returned from a great super fun visit to my parents, only to pull into the garage to see water steadily dripping out of our garage ceiling.
Yep…water coming out of the ceiling, huge water stains…not good. Amblin Man and I raced inside to the [...]
We just can’t get a break
Posted in large family, life with my children on March 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I am convinced that the mansion my Lord is preparing for me in heaven is a doctor’s mansion. Just kidding!
But seriously, this year has been quite the year medically for us. The latest: Mr 14 had influenza last week. We were all vaccinated but apparently, it wasn’t so effective for some of us. Mr 14 [...]
Mary’s Book is ready!!!
Posted in large family on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who read blogs, especially large family and/or adoption blogs, you may already know Mary of Owlhaven. If not, get over there and check out her blog. She is an amazing writer, mother of 10, and just a wonderful example to me as a Christian wife and mom. I have had the [...]
Back to School? …. NOT
Posted in large family, life with my children on January 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
(a bit of background necessary to understand the following post: My middle 2 children are in year round public school. Basically they are in school for 9 weeks (track-in) and out of school for 3 weeks (track out) all year. There are 4 tracks assigned to a school. Three tracks are [...]
Oh the weather outside
Posted in Parenting, general musings/writings, large family, life with my children on January 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
It’s snowing! Here..in the South! My children, who are born midwesterners, are SO excited!
We have a full day of no school, sledding, trying to dig out from the closet snow boots that fit, mittens, snow angels, snowmen, and hot chocolate ahead of us. I love these times when we’re playing [...]
Duggar Family: 20 and Counting
Posted in Parenting, Works for Me!, large family on January 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I spoke about this book in an earlier post and decided I wanted to go a bit more in depth on it in this post. I was going to make it my Works for Me Wednesday for yesterday, but I missed the link deadline~
I received the book “Duggar Family: 20 and Counting” (www.duggarfamily.com) [...]
Catching y’all up
Posted in Leaf Turning, christmas, general musings/writings, large family on January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s been forever since I’ve really blogged! The holidays will do that, I suppose.
Let’s see….I’ll try to fill you in on the happenings here and post a few funnies that happened over the weekend.
Christmas here at home: We spent Christmas Eve and Day here at our home. It’s always [...]
Chores with Children…a great system
Posted in Parenting, large family, life with my children on November 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I may have found just about the best system for organizing children’s chores ever! I didn’t think of it and can’t take credit for it. But I will definately post the link here so you can check it out. It’s posted on a blog called “Loved already” which I love. Melissa is doing [...]
Family Bible Time
Posted in Parenting, Works for Me!, large family on November 12, 2008 | 3 Comments »
It’s Works for Me Wednesday again at Rocks in My Dryer . If you’d like to see a lot of wonderful tips on a lot of topics, visit her site and play along with us!
My tip this week is for Family Bible Time. I’ve struggled for years to come up with a Bible time that [...]
