Silencing the Dust Bunnies

By two or three o’clock each day, my house looks like a toy monster exploded in a library.  Schooling my elder two children while keeping the youngest three entertained, fed, happy and out of trouble takes its toll on the house.  By this point in the day I have started laundry, started doing dishes , [...]

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One Thing

Here are some things I wish I was doing:

Writing everyday
Singing more
Getting up before the kids
Spending time with God each morning and night
Teaching my kids logic
Sighing at my children less and laughing with them more
Eating healthy
Making DH feel like a super hero
Living simply
Taking more risks
Calmly training my kids
Remembering the important things
Letting life experiences teach my kids [...]

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Finding a Rhythm

Well, Punky is 6 weeks old now, and we are getting adjusted.  We restarted our home school schedule when she was 2 weeks old and have been working out the glitches.  She usually sleeps in the morning, so our school schedule has been largely unaffected.  Unfortunately, I still have two toddlers to occupy during our [...]

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Our Sweet Blessing

Well, here she is, finally.   I’ll call her Punky here, due to her interesting hairdo.  When she was born, she looked bald on top until the very back of her head, which had hair standing straight up.  She looked a bit like an old man.   Since then, her hair has settled [...]

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Two under Two

Today was a Monday Monday.  The kind of Monday that makes Garfield throw his blanket  back over his head.  Unfortunately, as a mother of four, two of whom are under the age of two, I didn’t have the option of crawling back under my fluffy comforter this morning. 
The trouble began last night when L’il Britches decided [...]

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Little Drummer Boy

I just have to report that my husband’s amazing musical gene-ious has been passed on to at least one of our children.  DH was giving Bud a drum lesson in the garage yesterday afternoon while we were all playing outside.  Soon, we all stopped what we were doing and started listening, because our little six year old [...]

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So Much to Blog, So Little Time

It has been so long since I’ve posted.  If you saw my previous post, you know why!  Adding our fourth child has been so much fun, but also a really big adjustment.  I feel like I am going ninety miles an hour all day long and only getting half of my work done.  There have [...]

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A Bouquet of Thanks

Each year at Thanksgiving, I try to make sure that the kids and I do a project of some kind that shows what we have to be thankful for.  It is appropriate that Thanksgiving comes on the cusp of Christmas, because we need a reminder of what we already have during the season of “And [...]

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Worries

As I have written before, pregnancy seems to be a time for increased worrying.  While I don’t worry constantly, I have noticed that I go through “worry phases”.  As the birth of our little one draws near, being now only two months away, I find that my worries have started plaguing me again.  This time, [...]

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ADHD — A Check Up

We had Bud in for a check up today.  We wanted to monitor his growth and check on a heart murmur that was recently discovered, and basically check in with his doctor about his medication to make sure everything was as it should be.  Turns out, everything looks good, weight gain surprisingly included.  The doctor [...]

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