Linking up with a gentle mother to share the best of our library pile this week. Treasures from our Checkout Pile…Plus! My kids love to help in the kitchen. They like learning about ingredients, they like watching a dish develop, and they like tasting things. Don’t get me started on how much they like to […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Right about the time I started blogging, I realized that we were in sort of a happiness hole. Being in survival mode for so long hadn’t been good for anyone in our family. […]
It’s seven quick take time! -1- Turnips A couple days ago, David harvested everything from the garden. Can you see the enormous turnips in the wagon?!?! Yesterday I conquered them. I think we got the seeds for free, which is the only explanation why anyone would plant turnips. Unless it’s the zombie apocalypse, ain’t […]
Welcome to the weekly link up, Just Enough Info (JEI). The internets can be a great source of community, and I’d love to get to know you better! Feel free to share your answers in the comments or link up if you have a blog. After some heavy posts on Cee’s escalating health problems and a linkup […]
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day is October 15th. Do you have a story to tell? It’s healing to write. It’s healing to read. What helped you find peace? How do you celebrate and remember your little one? Our Story David and I are not members of the honeymoon baby club, but we did have a […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Today Cee passed her plate to Elle and asked her to mash up her sweet potatoes at dinner. Confused as to why she didn’t do it herself, I asked if her wrists hurt. […]
Linking up with a gentle mother to share the best of our library pile this week. Treasures from our Checkout Pile How’s a spork supposed to belong when he feels like he doesn’t fit in with either the spoons in his mum‘s family or the forks in his dad’s? Maybe it’s a stretch to call this […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Looking back on days 1-9, it seems like a lot of “this is what I need to work on” going on. That’s great. To strive to improve is noble, but it can also be […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Today is Sunday. In the past I’ve participated in the “My Sunday Best” link up hosted by Rosie. If you visit that link, you’ll see a list of reasons why someone like me who […]
Participants in “Write 31 Days” pledge to write for 30 minutes on a single topic every day in October. My topic? Happiness. Today I took the oldest kids to do some fun fall things. They rode horses. Painted pumpkins. Took a train ride around the lake. (Why yes, that “train” is a lawnmower and […]