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Practicing Thankfulness

How often are we practicing thankfulness? It’s November and like many of you I’ve been thinking about thankfulness. I have so much to be thankful for now and every day. This post I wrote a few years ago kept coming to mind. While my kids are older and some of the issues are different the… [continue reading]

Awesome Homeschooling Mom

Here’s the latest episode in “You know you’re an awesome homeschooling mom when…”  We are back in a Classical Conversations Community this year.  I am not tutoring and having so much fun watching other moms and dads help me in educating my children.  All of my kids’ tutors are fantastic! I thought it was really… [continue reading]

Sometimes he makes me crazy

Jason called from work that he had a migraine.  When we first moved to the area he was working downtown Dallas, and I told him that if he was going to get a job working there he’d have to find a way home himself when he had a migraine–and I wasn’t kidding!  But now he… [continue reading]

You’re doing…what?

Our children were playing in the yard yesterday as I was finishing cooking supper and Jason got home.  Since it was quiet in the house Jason and I took advantage to catch up on all the exciting things of the day.  It almost felt…strange to have been able to tell each other everything without any… [continue reading]

Funny Kids Quotes: Remarriage

Over supper last night the kids asked their dad if he knew how to make my Sopa recipe.  “He doesn’t but it’s on the blog,” I said, “so if I die just go to my blog and print it out.” “I wouldn’t ever want another mother!” one of the girls exclaimed. “If I die your… [continue reading]

Embarrassing Kids Quotes

“Cracker” was one of the first words of all of my children.  When moving to solids, crackers are one of the few things you can give a baby that they can eat by themselves with no worry of choking, and I think all of my babies have subsisted on crackers for months of their lives. … [continue reading]

Random Funny Kids Quotes

“Mom!” my daughter practically yelled at me.  “The cabinets are falling!”  I looked at her like she was crazy.  The kitchen cabinets looked just the same as always.  “Yes, Mom, I used to not be able to reach the glasses and look now I can!” On our recent trip we stayed at a hotel in… [continue reading]

Friendship and a flimsy wall

I really enjoyed the Teach Them Diligently convention.  The speakers were great, the curriculum booths were fun, the kids program was very well run, meeting new people was exciting, but the highlight of the convention for me was getting to see Katy.  The convention is a great way to bring people together!  I hadn’t seen… [continue reading]

You said what?

My husband has accepted a position at a new engineering firm.  I am really sad to see  him leave his job of over eight years because he has enjoyed it all these years, but a growing family and things such as BILLS drove him to interview in search of a salary increase.  He has had… [continue reading]