Beauty in the Ordinary
It’s Thursday, and I wanted to show you all my little baking zone, but it’s gloomy here, and pictures just don’t look as nice. Maybe next week. Instead I think I’ll show the schoolroom update. We’re going Montessori. We’re going….not there yet though! Peanut needs some activities accessible to him – Sparkly really needs some motor skill development. I love… Read More
Alright – let me just start by saying that I’m not sure how much restraint I can exercise here. There are just oodles of pictures from this nature walk. Mom, I’m going to try to keep you off the world wide web – but so many of the good pictures with you and the Peanut would have to be excluded…. Read More
Alright – let me just start by saying that I’m not sure how much restraint I can exercise here. There are just oodles of pictures from this nature walk. Mom, I’m going to try to keep you off the world wide web – but so many of the good pictures with you and the Peanut would have to be excluded…. Read More
Daddy, thinking he could get out of burying another dead fish, chunked him in the trash can in the dark of the night. The children, however, found out. Sparkly was most seriously displeased. DJ would need to be given a proper burial next to Mrs. The King. He was thusly removed from the gigantic, smelly, outdoor trash can where he… Read More
Sparkly took these pictures through the open window of our van today after lessons. I was struggling to keep Peanut from launching himself out the window to ride on the “heehee.” Great job Sparkly!!
I wish I could figure out how to upload Quicktime to blogger!!!!! I have the most adorable pictures of the Peanut bouncing up and down the hallway on his little bouncy horse. We had one of these big blue ball things that you sit on and bounce outside, but the neighbors dog ate it. We’ve been mourning the loss of… Read More
Well, I started gathering things from the 4 corners of the house last night – phone numbers and addresses stashed on little pieces of paper, a brochure from our organic beef supplier, receipts, etc. to file in our new home management binder. As I was gathering, I realized – oh our budgets that I keep should probably be there, and… Read More
I think I might have mentioned in an earlier post that I’ve been trying to put something like this together for about a year now. I just couldn’t visualize what I wanted to put in it. So, I had loose ends everywhere. I knew it didn’t make sense, but how to fix it eluded me…until now. Kim at Starry Sky… Read More
I’m excited to have found a weblog from a great Catholic family – mom of 9 – describing in exquisite detail a home management book that I’ve been trying to make for some time now. Ever since Mom got me that great Kimberly Hahn CD set from St. Joseph’s I have been trying to piece together in my mind what… Read More
Well, we put it off long enough. We finally bought a bed this weekend for the Peanut. Rob got the bed at Costco – just a mattress. They carry brand names, and we thought surely this would be ok. He didn’t need anything plush. Sweet Pea and Peanut and I stayed home and dissassembled all the baby furniture. Sweet Pea… Read More
We had a great weekend here! Saturday was spent putting together and setting up Peanut’s new bed. More on that later. But Sunday was Sweet Pea’s day. After watching Gene Autry and enjoying a relaxing afternoon it was time for dinner. Sweet Pea made lasagna, salad, and our daily bread. Quite an accomplishment! She is begging for more grown-up responsibility,… Read More
I love Lent! This liturgical season has to be one of my favorites. I don’t know why, I just long for it. I am not by nature a melancholic person, I’m very joyful I think, but I love Lent. Maybe it’s because I am such a sanguine at heart – I need holy mother Church to remind me to “Be… Read More
Today seems much better. I always feel refreshed after a good nights sleep. I started early this morning, went through all of Peanut’s clothes – weeding the “too small” and adding some new, old stuff from Sparkle’s stores of outgrown clothes. All the kids had a bath – everything always seems better when the kids smell sweet! Rooms were tidied…. Read More
I think I might enjoy blogging – though I don’t really understand it all yet. Chatting endlessly to no one in particular seems like it might be enjoyable. But where are all the pretty colors and happy buttons I was promised. I wanted pink lacy things. I need shiny buttons. I shall tell “no one” about my day. It started… Read More
