We made it home from Tri-Cities today with no (as a gentleman at church put it) “unauthorized stops in Rufus [Oregon].” This is referring of course to the last time I drove home from Tri-Cities all by myself with three small children in the car – when my tire blew just past the John Day Dam. [...]
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I have stubbornly stuck to my Kodak camera software over the past 5 years or so because I hate having to learn new systems when I know how to work the old one. Today I actually used a fun feature I’d never messed around much before and printed these out for [...] I read recently on the Femina blog of a just-before-Christmas-party-disaster involving powdered sugar and 3 small children. Today we had one of our own. I was on the phone with my mom this morning, and one of the boys burst in with, “Mom, I pooped in my pants…” (in itself not a positive thing) “and the honey [...] My first real bed. My parents moved me into it when I was a toddler, and I’ve slept in it most of my life (except for a couple brief stints in bunkbeds). When we married, the bed came with me. Same bed, same mattress. Purchased before I was born. Old mattress. Simmons Beautyrest Full At last, after [...] Today, as we listened to some cello concertos during lunch I asked, “What instrument is this?” Judah responded, “The Cello.” (thank the Little Einsteins – I certainly couldn’t have told him that!) I asked, “who wrote this music?” They weren’t sure, so I told them, “Johann Sebastian Bach.” (Judah at once informed me that this was what he [...] Charlotte Mason recommends teaching children “handicrafts,” as in useful skills, in addition to their liberal arts education. Upon reflection, I decided that while I could not teach my kids plumbing or electrical wiring, I probably should be able to teach them to cook, or at least, to bake. So a few weeks ago on Friday (our [...] For those of you who commented (on facebook) and prayed, thank you! Monica woke up this morning without an itchy bump to be seen and seems to be feeling fine. She slept in really late, which is kind of odd, but other than that, she seems to be normal. [...] Monica got hives last week. Yes, I know, it’s an icky topic. I especially think that hives are icky; just looking at them makes me feel slightly sick to my stomach and itchy all over. But, indeed, she did get a terrible case of hives last Wednesday morning, which continued until Friday and only stopped, so [...] |
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