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Björk.

Twelve hours of sewing and twenty-five yards of tulle later... I attribute this dress' success to Marky, who acted as a dress form so I could pin the yards and yards of tulle to the skirt base. We're in the an…
Adventuresome Unschooling

Well, I confess the last thirty days have not been the best. Today was just uncalled for, however, ending with some wasp stings and Jeremiah pulling his dresser down on himself. (He's fine, and it hopefully scared the li…
The Saddest Sense Ever.

So, while things were up in the air for a while, Courtney is indeed moving to Omaha this weekend, and this morning I was faced with the challenge of explaining to my boys why their aunt will not be over every day anymore…
We're a family, we are doing this, we are hopeful and we are alive.

Hey look! I helped Marky with something! I drew and inked that camera all by myself and he used it for this poster. Given the fact that I am not known for my art skills whatsoever, I'm pretty proud of myself. Venna …
What we've been up to:

Aside from all the massive health problems over here, there have been other things going on, believe it or not. For one, spring cleaning! I made new curtains for the deck windows, scrubbed all the applianc…
And now, for a good dose of humility:

So, what's that they say about God having a sense of humor? We went to church this morning and during worship, Jeremiah decided it would be funny to hide under my dress. That's right. My three year-old lifted up my skir…
I'm different, Mama.

Jeremiah woke me up the other morning by coming into my room wailing, "I can't be Batman, mama, my hands are DIFFERENT!" He is just really going through a hard time right now. It's easy for me to take the "it could be w…
We build bridges, don't we?

This does not bode well for this weekend. I've been sitting here for the last two hours watching The Duchess (which left me completely undone, by the way) and listening to poor Micah cough, cough and cough some more. I d…
rain, shine. rain, shine. surprise parenting rant! rain, shine...

it's storming! rats! we were outside have the most glorious peter spier's rain experience (a beloved childhood book of mine which heavily influenced how i thought children were to be raised) and then it started to stor…
garden love smells like hay. sweet with earth.

i hope all you mamas had a lovely mother's day! marky took me and the kids bowling the evening before which was really, really fun. by the third frame all the boys were really into it and doing little victory dances when…