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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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]