Hey Mom, are you awake? Is Daddy already gone? Can I take Sadie outside? When can I wake Princepesa up? Can you make pancakes for breakfast? Can I have more syrup? Can I have more milk? Can I have more syrup? Can you put my bike helmet on? Are you done with school yet? Is [...]
This is what happens when your kids are getting squirrely waiting for their food at Applebees and you hand them your camera (always in your purse) to keep them busy.
We ran a few errands this afternoon and on a whim I pulled into our favorite thrift store on the way home. I laughed when my kids started cheering, “Yeah! We love this thrift store! You never know what good things you are going to find!” Talk about training up your children, eh? And we [...]
Saxon math for the early years is an exercise in frustration for the perfectionist child. I am just stubborn enough that we have stuck it out until this point, but even a mom with a bronze forehead can only take so much crying about math lessons. Henceforth, we are going with Horizons math. Amen. Anyone [...]
This is big, folks. I just won a solitaire game. No big deal? It is, only because I officially crossed the 35% win percentage barrier. So now I guess I can’t play solitaire anymore. As sure as I do, I’ll lose a string of games and crash my win percentage. Phoooo….
These are a few of my faaaaa-vorite things… (dum da da, dum da da) Trader Joe’s multigrain crackers. Best tasting cracker ever, and less than $2 a box! Raspberries. My dustbuster. Hand it to Viking – he thinks it’s a game and I get to go another day without vacuuming. Gardening catalogs. Paisley. Bedtime. The [...]
My kids are busy setting up a restaurant in my daughter’s room. Apparently we are eating there for dinner tonight. They keep running to ask me questions about what I like to eat and how much I would pay for it. I was presented with a full color menu. Surprisingly it includes a website address [...]
I enjoy reading magazines and although I read most of them in the public library, I do subscribe to a few. The problem is that my pack rat tendencies just go into overdrive when I look at a magazine full of thrifty decorating ideas or possible garden plants or recipes I just have to try [...]
I’ve spent the last couple of days buried under piles of ribbon and fabric and interfacing and thread and buttons and rick rack and elastic and patterns and… are you getting the point? I finally decided my little corner of the basement needed an overhaul. It was taking me longer to find anything than to [...]
I thought borax was one of those old laundry things we don’t use any more, like washboards and… and bluing. Or is it maybe something to chase ants away? I dunno. Wow was I wrong. After hearing a couple of passing comments about it and then seeing a blog post about it somewhere (tried to [...]
