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Vacation!

We are getting ready to go on a week-long visit back to see family and I’m currently avoiding the mountain of laundry that I need to finish folding and putting away.
Packing for a trip is such a tough chore for me because I am here at home almost 24/7/365 and I rather like being here [...]

A new week

I just love getting a fresh week.  Of course it’s only great until I manage to screw it up, but it’s nice to have a clean slate to start with at least.
I got Eddie up and off to work this morning and I have a bit of time left before the kiddos wake up.  I [...]

New Homeschooling Blog

I’ve just recently started a new blog where I’m posting a homeschooling (or teaching) freebie every weekday.
Yesterday the free resource was a school year’s worth of free spelling lessons from Marie Rackham of Splashes from the River.
Today, I made some very basic Christmas/Holiday stencils in Illustrator and packaged them into a PDF [...]

Quote of the day

While listening to Hot Chip
Ari: “Houses should all have disco balls. Our house should, at least. We REALLY need a disco ball Mom.”Me: “Someone would end up getting koshed on the head like the alien that sang the Diana Ross song.”Ari: “Oh. Well, I won’t sing that song, then.Now can we get [...]

Time to rethink my phrasing

I hate the feeling of wanting to crawl under the carpet when I hear the kids repeating some less-than-savory phrase of ours.
For instance, the kids are playing house. Dewey is the dad and the girls are the kids. He’s pretending to be getting them ready for dinner, something Eddie has been [...]