A friend of ours that we haven’t seen for a few years recently sent me these very important questions… See my responses below!
How do you do it?? Are you homeschooling as well? Do you have to let things (like keeping a tidy house) go, or are you ultra-organized?… Some days I just want to [...]
Being a large(r) family, we’re always looking for ways to streamline things and make life more efficient.
I often dress my kids in coordinated outfits if we’re going to be in a crowded place. While we were at our huge county fair this summer, I got the idea of tie-dying a bunch of shirts! That way [...]
It’s a new year…
So, it’s out with the old.
And in with the New!!
Did you know that October 15th (today) is National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day?
I didn’t either. Apparently, it was declared as such in 2006.
I had my first miscarriage in 2006, in June. The second was the past June.
I’m not writing this the be a downer or to dwell in depression… Rather to rest [...]
I’m sicker than a dog with a nasty sinus infection.
My boys were bummed to learn that we’d still be doing school though. I feel too cruddy to do anything but sit, so school it is!
“Man, you’re sick and we STILL have to do school?!”
Yes. Then I reminded them that they’d get some time off [...]
Don’t try to follow my train of thought. It derailed awhile back.
1) Speaking of trains, Ferris “rode her potty train to the end” this week. We started with her Special Potty Day last Monday. Yesterday (Monday again) she finished it off by getting 26 stickers (successes) in a row on her chart!! Woo-Hoo.
Her reward was [...]
Our wonderful, amazing, creative, patient, stellar niece Erica was over for a while yesterday and she captured this moment of our oldest three boys… Connor, Andy, Brady. I couldn’t help but smile when I saw it.
She also made them octopus hot dogs for lunch. She’s the best.
I can’t help myself. I love my kids… I love baseball… I love brightly colored summer photos… So, I just can’t stop. My sister-in-law Heather took these photos Saturday at Opening Day. I’m posting them here for all eternity!
She got many more of Andy and Brady…
Brady played first base for the first inning. Doesn’t he [...]
I still don’t think of us as being a large family… Maybe that’s because our oldest is only seven. For whatever reason, I just don’t yet. Maybe that day will come…
There are MANY, MANY blessings to having a big family. I realized one of them while grocery shoppoing today: You NEVER have to reach into [...]
I have to head off to a baseball board meeting soon, so I don’t have time to give you the full recap, but I will say this:
We had a GREAT, AMAZING, WONDERFUL time at Wrigley Field on Sunday.
We ended up riding the South Shore train into the city, then catching the Red Line portion of [...]