People. Seriously. I am so tired I can not finish anything.
Maybe if I finish this blogpost I can regain some self esteem.
School is going really well. I’m really happy with everything and I am almost really happy with the schedule. ...
I’m a little distracted because I just looked at my phone bill and whoops! went waaay over on the text messaging. I’m still used to it being UNLIMITED, apparently.
Anyway, we ate dinner at church yesterday and then,...
(I posted this on a mama's forum, but thought I would share it here as well) I love hearing everything that goes through their little heads. I love their theories about life. For example, when they're not with someone they love--grandma...
Ethan started his gifted class this week. He seemed to really like it and reported more on what he did in there than he has about his regular class. One thing I did notice is that his perfectionism was more...
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You guys probably already know this but today is the first day of September.
I am in denial. Even though we have started school, it is still summer in my heart. Whoooo’s gonna tell my heart it isn’t August...
Funeral to be held in Walker, Iowa on Saturday at 4pm. More information in the Gazette.
My poem about her, “The Beautiful Woman,” forthcoming in the next issue of Tinfish.
We are heartbroken but joyful....
My second grader. My second grader? Where does the time go. It seems like I was just starting preschool with him.And then my preschooler......whose upper lip started disappearing the more pictures I took......until I told him to smile really big...
Tim: Despite the craziness of the begining of the semester, we somehow squeezed in a vacation in Hilton Head with Rich, Deb, Jon and Beka and their kids. We didn't spend too much time at the beach because of...
This is a Sponsored Post written by me on behalf of Ramblers Way. All opinions are 100% mine.Eight years ago during a trip to Scotland, I got to tour a mill where they made wool clothing. I would have loved...
On the occasion of Sarah's baking bread, 8/31/10 Inasmuch as ye have done unto the yeast of these... You knead dough? I need dough. Early to bread, early to rise....
I had to leave you in Galway
But I think about you every day
In the morning and in the afternoon
I wish that I could see you soon
And when I held you I felt so fine
It was like there was nothing left...
Arianna decided she can crawl. She didn’t even do that rocking thing babies often do – she just all of the sudden took off across my sisters’ living room Sunday, and that was that. (Same day she got...
So this is week two of Ethan in public school. Today he started his gifted class and he seemed excited about going. It's still really weird to me to drop him off every morning and never talk to the teacher. ...
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Happy Monday everyone! Isn’t it nice that we get a nice shiny new week every week?
I tend to be a glass is half empty kinda person, you know that. I would tend to look a the new week and...
i'm not sure what will happen with this blog.if it's about life in russia, i'm failing. i don't see much of russia these days. and, really, who wants to hear more about the car sagas and paperwork sagas and dealing...
(Remember that goose in Charlotte’s Web?)
Yes, a weekend full o’ family – minus my dad, sadly. My mom has been helping get my sisters settled in their new apartment and it is super cute. We all had pizza...
We just finished painting Ansley's room...well you know how I love before and after pictures. So I'm going to post some almost before pictures (because once again I didn't think of it until we had started putting the primer on)...
I have enjoyed doing a list of 1,000 graces God gives to me each day. I have indeed "tasted the sweet nectar" of gratitude and it is changing me. The past few months have been incredibly difficult with my husband...
Yesterday, we had another exciting day on the pitch!
Jmurrs went right at it without apprehension this week.
Check out the concentration! The footwork!
Banjoman and SuperT suffered a close loss in an exciting game. 6-5 was the score. The grey team had...
So, I didn't have to go very long without internet access. Nae got us hooked up to Cricket so all is well.We took the kids to the park this evening and Nae treated them to a snow cone which they...
Parenting for me is often like the process of sanctification. I grow and move forward in holiness and then I sin and am reminded of just how sinful I am. It would be so much easier to parent if I didn't have the...
Yesterday morning we spent the first half of the morning puttering around our little garden, and the second half puttering around with pesto. Our one cherry tomato vine is absolutely out of control. So, we tied up some...
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