A soul that walks on water leaves no footprints, but will make waves."
My friend Shannon and I didn’t coordinate our plans so that the week she spent in Michigan would coincide with the days that I spent in Michigan. This was a problem as both of us felt the need to catch up and neither of us could change our plans. So th…
I was just thinking about what it felt like to laugh uncontrollably when I was really big and pregnant. I like that memory.
So far Ivan has had one day of school. Yesterday I got groceries. That’s a morning activity in our house and I like it that way. If I cannot do any better about schooling than I may have to change that, but I’m hoping this is just an odd week.
Th…
Ivan and Owen started school today. Ivan is following my homemade curriculum for pre-school until my books come in. Today I covered basics like identifying letters and trying to familiarize him with their sounds. I’m putting an emphasis on Vowels…
Owen was supposed to start school along with every other kid in Wilson county. There was a sad circumstance involving the death of a part time staff member at the school and her funeral delayed school starting until today. Owen did not know her so he w…
Woke up to rumbles outside and rolled over to sleep a little longer.
Woke up again to rumbles inside and went upstairs to referee the fight.
Poured “Saturday cereal” (the only day they are allowed to eat sugary cereal) for the boys and then made my…
Long time no Limerick!I decided that I’m not under “limerick law” and needed to exercise my rights to grace and freedom to NOT write a limerick EVERY Friday. However, I am without excuse to write today and I think Edith and Fran need to be recog…
The boys started swim lessons in June:
I don’t know for sure, but this may be my longest hiatus from the blog yet. I had not intended to take a break, but as life was happening faster than I could narrate I had to give in to it and just enjoy it.
In my last post I gave an account of gro…
I have not been anxious to catch up on my blog, and I seriously have not had enough time to sit and write. That often means that there are loads of things to write about, but I haven’t felt a back up and I haven’t felt that urge to purge my brain of all…