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The garden has been great this summer! We've had lots of peas, lettuce, beets, radishes, raspberries and more. I can...

I had a retirement dinner to attend the other day for someone I worked with in my pre-stay-at-home-mom life. It was an event at a very nice ...

Our littlest one is a great story teller! I love to listen to her tell a story of life as she knows it. Her stories usually begin with somet...

Today the kids worked so hard manning their roadside juice and vegetable stand. We have a surplus of lettuces, cilantro, radishes, and bok c...

Hi all, I'm trying to figure out the photo posting on this blog. Sometimes it's works, sometimes it doesn't. I was able to pos...

We recently finished our AWANA year. I'm proud to announce that our oldest completed his third year as an AWANA Sparky and completed the...

Read at your own Risk... If you have issues with the discussion of bodily functions skip this entry. We were on a walk the other day whi...

birLast weekend we celebrated the many family birthdays that occur in the spring. One of which is our littlest one's birthday. She...

Well, I was just relaxing reading my email and enjoying a moment and through the hole in our sliding screen door bounds our declawed, overwe...

Yesterday we did school in the garden. It was such a beautiful day we couldn't stay cooped up in the house. So out the kids went with ba...

This morning I went out and worked in the garden and much to my pleasant surprise the radishes were already ready to harvest....

Daddy had a birthday recently and when the kids and I were out looking and trying to figure out what to get him our youngest son piped up, ...

It has been a season of accidents lately. Recently two of our kiddos were playing. Middle brother was pulling baby girl around around the w...

We're working our way through Laura Ingalls's first book, Little House in the Big Woods. I can't say I remember reading the boo...

Last weekend a friend asked, "What was the greatest thing that happened in the last week?" Wow, what a question! We do so many won...

I worked in the garden again yesterday, busily planting some seeds. I took this photo before I had planted. The focus this year will be on ...

After the overwhelming task of maintaining a HUGE garden (about 40X150) last year we decided to scale down and rethink my gard...

As you will see in the photos, the devastation in Mississippi is still very evident. Although the hurricane was over 7 months ago, th...

This week my kid's Daddy left for a mission trip to the Gulf Coast. He phoned last night to tell us about his first full day. They went ...