April 28, 2009 – 10:44 pm
The last couple of weeks have been very focusing for me. The week before I started homeschooling, I sat down to figure out a schedule and had a dreadful time doing it. Finally it all came together but only after I sat down and did some uber-prioritizing. Funny thing: when you figure out which things [...]
Every year on Good Friday, our church holds a special service that goes through Jesus’ dying words on the cross and reminds us of his death and resurrection. Seven candles are set up and after a reading of each section of what Jesus said, three verses of a very long song (21 verses) are sung, [...]
It is frustrating, you know. Like many careers that leave employees frustrated, Mothering involves many mindless jobs that repeat themselves day after day only to be undone and redone again the next day. Dishes, which we go through three dishwashers full of per day at our house, leap to mind. Laundry, floor sweeping, vacuuming, and [...]
August 12, 2008 – 11:42 pm
WooHoo! Looks like we may finally be making potty training progress with Miss Faithyroo. She’s pretty close to Georgie territory on how long she’s been taking to train. Georgie was four months but Trinity was only a week, Anika one month, and Kyra two weeks start to finish. Faith here is somewhere around three months, [...]
Trinity is off at Babunya’s (Hubby’s Mother) house this week, as per her birthday request, so we are down one child. It’s quite strange how the entire character of the house changes when one of the kids is missing. Hmmm, this is probably a preview of how it will differ when someone heads off to [...]
So last week we were at Family Camp, and every year at camp they have a dance night (yes, at church camp. We go to a cool church). The dances are always set dances like the Virginia Reel and Scottish Jigs and things like that (okay, I guess my whole “cool” argument has just gone [...]
Sunday night we had a BBQ and I tried out my MIL’s ice cream maker. OH MY GOSH!!! Well, that stuff is just too good to exist which explains why it had been completely devoured within just a few moments. I’m never eating store-bought ice cream again (hmm, that might be pushing it. Just forget [...]
Ahhh, busy week around here. I can always tell when I’m feeling better because the house all of a sudden looks really messy and drives me bananas. Saturday morning I spent three or four hours cleaning out the big kids’ trash trap of a bedroom. Four garbage bags full of broken toys and miscellaneous paper [...]
April 23, 2008 – 10:56 pm
Yesterday I spent a large portion of the day upstairs communing with my laptop and catching up on deskwork. The older children spent at least half the day cleaning their bedrooms (cleaning in this case is a relative term) and the downstairs and then messing both back up again in a successful effort to irritate [...]
October 30, 2007 – 8:38 pm
So apparently Georgie asked his Dad yesterday if we’re supposed to be scared of God. George told him that it’s like with parents. If you’re obeying, then you don’t need to be scared. If you’re doing what you know is wrong, then you’re in trouble. Plus, God can see everything!
This whole conversation was relayed to [...]
