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 [...]
February 11, 2009 – 1:34 pm
to your 10 year old…
“No Georgie, I do not know how to make an electromagnet.”
That was the result of his reading this:
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and to your 3 year old…
“No Faithy, you may not get a tatoo!”
in response to her post-communion wine proclamation on Sunday: “I want a tatoo!” Maybe that’s why many churches forgo the Biblical wine [...]
February 5, 2009 – 3:31 pm
Well okay, that might be a bit of hyperbole. Although I could blog without these, why would I want to? I’m sure this will be of interest to about zero people (maybe one), but I’ve decided to put it here so that a) I don’t forget what I did to my blogs this week so [...]
January 31, 2009 – 10:16 am
Yeah, okay so the men are supposed to be the hunters and blah blah blah. Well, yesterday I conquered the shopping beast and it was awesome!! Brief backstory (stop laughing. I can be brief if I want to!):
Usually I buy the kids clothes for the following year at the end of the previous season because [...]
January 26, 2009 – 3:11 pm
When Georgie and I returned from a brief shopping excursion the other day, we discovered the girls all dejectedly milling about the kitchen. They had wanted to make frosted graham crackers out of Anika’s cookbook but couldn’t find any graham crackers.
I headed upstairs to go monkey around for half an hour before dinner prep needed [...]
November 5, 2008 – 12:06 am
Friday night for Halloween we went to our church’s annual Reformation Night party (did you know that Martin Luther nailed the 95 theses on the door of the Wittenburg Castle Church on October 31, 1517? This, of course, was the spark for the Protestant Reformation). The party always involves booths with games and things that [...]
September 23, 2008 – 4:05 pm
Monday night as we were all loaded into the van trundling down the Babunya’s (a.k.a. “Hubby’s Mom”) house for dinner, I could have sworn I heard the word “damn” ushering from my darling eight-year old daughter’s lips. Not only that, but it was being pronounced in the same way you would hear it from a [...]
September 3, 2008 – 12:23 am
George’s youngest brother Jon got married on Saturday. Four of the kids plus George were in the wedding, and George’s brother David and his family were up from Arizona. Their kids are around the same ages as ours, so they had a wonderful time playing together. They regularly ask to go visit or when the [...]
August 19, 2008 – 10:22 pm
This morning as we were barreling down the freeway my children began to sing the Twelve Days of Christmas because really, Christmas is a mere four months away!! This delightfully repetitive and obnoxious song that is pretty much the holiday equivalent of 99 bottles of beer on the wall began to evolve after about the [...]
Specificity works! (also begging…). So yay! I got the fancy little slimline Casio Exilim camera that I wanted for my birthday (thank you parents, Hubby, and SIL). It’s teeny tiny so it fits in my purse/diaper bag/crochet bag, has video capture, and it’s even red. So cool!
Apparently if you email everyone who might buy you [...]
