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I went grocery shopping with all three kids in tow this morning (which method I tend to avoid like the plague – but sometimes you need food and you’ve already asked your sister-in-law to babysit too many times this month…).\par
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It went well! Amazing! By the time we left I was still in full possession of my [...]

A couple days ago, as my boys ate homegrown yogurt with brown sugar and popcorn for dinner (ummm… it was just me and them, no other adults, and obviously I took the night off of cooking..), I handed Monica a piece of sourdough no-knead bread with homemade strawberry jam spread on top. Suddenly I thought, “oh [...]

Since the first full week of January, I’ve been attempting to really get my housework/schoolwork/life on track. You know, really take dominion of my domain: get up on time, eat right, keep the house clean, do school with the boys every day, and that sort of thing. I’ve enlisted my friend Mystie as an accountability partner, [...]

I thought for future reference that I should list the things that I’m currently involved in or working on. That way, when all of this has become a distant small-child fogged memory, I’ll be able to look back and think, “Oh, that’s right, I actually did do something other than childcare and rather unsuccessful home maintenance [...]