Thanks

The sickness lingers.  My system fails.  I feel like puking. But today I rallied and made supper anyway.  The kids screamed -literally – around me.  It was in joy and mirth-ful sounding, but still. Anyway, as I stirfried chicken that I really didn’t want to...

When Mama ain’t happy . . .

I’ve been ill for so long I’ve forgotten what it feels like to be well.  Mainly I’ve been sleeping and feeling sorry for myself. “The house is a mess!”  “Why won’t someone wait on me?”  “My husband must hate me!”  The one thing I have yet to fret over, though, is the...

Goodbye my baby

  Today Tess turned two.  I can’t believe it either!!  How the time does fly … She woke up this morning and got out of her “big girl bed” all by herself. (That, my friends, deserves it’s own post, but I’m lazy.  The little monkey climbed out of the crib by herself 3...

Got my new shoes on

The weather has turned downright fallish around here complete with cool temps and rain.  The crowd had outgrown all of their closed toe shoes and had worn their sandals out so we had getting new zapatos on the horizon.  However, as the co op feild trip loomed and the...

Out of the Mouth of Babes…

So, earlier this week, Max and I were beading. (That’s right, beading.  My boy likes his baubles.  Only when my father is around do I feel shameful about it.  The rest of the time I swell with pride and hopefulness.  It WILL color his future, I know it.  He will...