Should I Be Waking Up My Five-Year-Old?
We're homeschooling. And one of the benefits of that is that when Olivia has a late night, or isn't feeling well, she can sleep until she's fully rested in the morning. We don't normally start school until around 11, actually. Our whole day is probably a few hours...
Picapalooza: The Last of the Fall Pics
Going... Going... Gone. Laughing hysterically at the ducks. Extremely pleased that he is allowed to throw rocks. Oh, boys. 🙂 Tinkerbell turns for a smile while Peter Pan waits his turn behind Johnny Depp, er, I mean, an anonymous member of Captain Hook's crew, who...
WOPS, Lumps, and Flattery are All Fine Topics, I Promise.
Well, the craziness of the past two weeks is over. Perhaps I should start blogging again? Honestly, Between Valentine's day and this past Sunday, the kids saw Josh that first Monday, the following Friday, Sunday morning for church, Wednesday, Friday again, and then...
The Mommy’s Choice
You're cleaning up breakfast dishes in relative peace and quiet when all of a sudden, three things happen, all at once. 1) You've got to poop. 2) The baby runs past you with a very saggy, very stinky, very messy diaper. 3) The older two break out in a no holds bar...
Update on My WOPS Status: Oy. Busy.
(If this picture is messed up, I blame the fact that I'm posting this via iPhone.) 🙂 These are my counters. It's the aftermath of pizza night. And an indication of the craziness of this past week. Josh wanted to work late on Monday, but I reminded him it was...
Picapalooza Part Three: Lots and Lots of Kid Pictures (Fall-Themed)
At some point in our 1/4 year stay in Illinois, I realized I hadn't taken hardly any pictures of the kids. So, on the peak day for leaf color, we went out to our favorite state park and I took a gajillion pictures. Behold the over-doing of our family documentation!...
Pizza Meatloaf Recipe
Meatloaf is one thing I learned to adapt to a gluten-free lifestyle pretty quickly. And while staying at Josh's Grandma's for three months, I was blessed to learn the existence of two very important meatloafs: Pizza Meatloaf and Mexican Meatloaf. Today, I will...
Diagnosis: Gluten-Free?! How to Eat Out
Here is Part Three of my three part series on the gluten-free lifestyle. Part One (Where to Start) is here and Part Two (How Meals Will Change) is here. I know I said I'd have more on gluten-free oatmeal in this part, but as an afterthought, I didn't think it...
Attachment Parenting and {Gasp!} Spanking.
I guess I never realized most attachment parents thought their parenting style would make the need to spank obsolete. That keeping their child close and loving them to the fullest extent possible would teach the child right from wrong, leading them to a life of...
Diagnosis: Gluten-Free?! How Meals Will Change
This is Part Two of a three part series. See Part One here. When we went gluten-free, I began to realize how unbalanced our dinners had become. Chicken pot pie, for example, was mostly a cream sauce and crust (both have gluten), with a little bit of chicken and...