In groggy morning hours I climbed out of bed for a baby who needed a fresh diaper and bite to eat, took a toddler to the bathroom and co...

Baby for not-much-longer... Why does that little nose keep running?  Aren't we done with this sickness yet? And why do runny noses co...

This morning started off rocky. I'm still working out the kinks of a school routine, which when educatin...

At noon it felt like a day lost. Nothing terrible had transpired... yet nothing ... had transpired. And then wh...

"Can I get into the bath now?"   she says. "No. You forgot something."    I say. ...

Somewhere between Breakfast and the baby's first diaper change, I lost it. I couldn't find the freedom I know is mine, and I was co...

This beautiful lake is balm for a weary heart. Watching my very own sweet candy-colored children play wit...

~Trying on a fish net~ Prayers and Nyquil are the combination I credit to nary a peep from my sick fish last n...

In a torrent of tears, I slip off both boots.   Each a child's size 9 with purple polka dots,  and each on the wrong foot. A deluge of...

 ...The one where Adrenalin has left without a farewell and Tiredness catches up, tackles me, and I get buried at ...

Sometimes the little things seem like BIG things, you know? Today was like that for me. One little kink in my day felt like an insurmou...

Each of your children has 2 pencils to do their Math: 1 with a working pencil lead,  and  1 with a working eraser. Has anyone else g...

I know I am in trouble for not posting the usual sustainance lately. I wish I could give you a great reason for it, or even tell you how su...

 And when everything falls apart... Worship Him still. Another try at starting a school week today. Ano...

Ours had a curve ball thrown at it. No Easter Lunch. No Easter Egg hunt, which was partially due to No warm sunny rays gleaming on the ...

Teaching, Feeding, Cleaning, Sorting, Packing (again), Balancing, Juggling, Multi-tasking... ...Actually I can't multi-task. Unless you ...

Promised pictures coming your way soon! Some of us got sick. "Some" of us (namely Carolina) kept "others" of us (that wo...

Well. It seems I am good for reading blogs at night, but not writing them - not in this season anyway. With a cup of Mocha in the morning ho...

Ahhh... what a NICE nap! I THINK the girls slept, but who cares ? I slept, and HOW. Fire crackling on the hearth. A cooing baby. Applying na...

Got a crash course in charging the van battery myself. Unloaded six children (made them keep on their shoes and jackets). Sat by the living...