Don’t look now but it looks like someone is almost too big to ride in the BABY SWING!! You know your child is too big for the baby swing when she can STAND UP while sitting IN the baby swing. Yep, I think little Aria’s baby swing’n days are almost over. She will be FOUR […]
week at a glance
Well, the month of June is officially kicking my butt. There’s just so much going on, I swear I can barely keep up. Thank goodness I take photos of everything or else I’d look back on these days and not believe that I was ever so busy. That is why I started this blog in […]
June
June already!I really dislike the month of June. With all the end-of-the-year activities and parties and all that, it just makes for a very busy and hectic month. Here is a little of what we’ve got going on this month:5th grade graduation “Beach Day” (Avery)End of the Year Violin Concert (Alex)End of the Year Choir […]
How We Celebrated EARTH DAY
In our town we have designated areas where residents can tend to their own garden plots. Rich and I thought it would be fun for our family to have a plot, knowing that it would be a great experience for the kids to plant and harvest their own food. So in early April we put […]
Really? How hard is it?
Every time. Every single time. Freak’n lazy kids.click this link once a day to vote – thank you so much!
randomness
Today I was showing my older daughter how to use Pinterest, and I pinned one of my own blog posts to demonstrate the pinning process. So now that will go out to all of my Pinterest followers and everyone will see that I pinned one of my own blog posts. Is that tacky? to pin […]
snow & sand
I feel I have to apologize in advance for all the photos in this post. It’s photo overload. Major photo overload. But I couldn’t help myself. That being said… Here is what we have been up to! We went up to the snow on Friday! It was so pretty up there, and I must have snapped […]
Penny Update
Remember the dog we adopted back in December? Penny is doing quite well. Of course she gets into everything, as most puppies do. If it’s lying on the floor, she will have it in her mouth soon enough. Shoes left out get chewed. Toys get destroyed. Paper gets shredded. Food gets eaten. (crayons, too, for […]
stomach bug
We had a stomach bug here in our house recently. It was so much fun, let me tell you. Seven out of the nine kids got it, and I’m still holding my breath on the other two. I’ve been busy disinfecting toilet knobs, door knobs, stair railings, desks, counter tops – if they can touch […]
she got stung!
Penny got stung by a bee today! She was out in the yard, just hanging out with Milo like always, and the next thing I knew her lip was all puffed out. It was HUGE! At first I thought she just had a ball in her mouth or that she had picked up a toy […]
It’s not a clown car!
photo courtesty Google.com Okay, okay… I know this photo caption is in bad taste, and so unlike me to post on my big family lov’n blog. But I just couldn’t help it. It made me laugh! A clown car! Oh wow, I’m laughing at that and I know I shouldn’t be. But I am! All […]
the time I forgot Daddy & Me Day
It wasn’t me who forgot all about Daddy & Me Day at Andrew’s preschool, which was at 11:00am this past Saturday. It wasn’t me who made sure that Rich was off work that day, so that he could attend this special event with Andrew….and when the day came around, it wasn’t me who woke up […]
sibling squabbles
Anonymous said… Great post!! I grew up in a large family and I totally agree with your perspective on this. I have a question of my own for you should you care to answer it in one of your fabulous Q & A posts: sibling rivalry/fighting/arguing/bickering/whatever you want to call it–with so many […]
Lice!
We did not discover lice in one of our children’s hair last week! And we did not decide to treat our entire family just to be safe. And while we were not doing that we did not find lice in all the other children’s heads, too. No, of course not! That’s nine heads that […]
Today was SO busy…
Today it was SO busy… that I forgot to eat breakfast, had no time for lunch, and ate some Halloween candy at 2:45 because I was feeling light-headed. The sugar rush from the candy got me to dinner – Pizza Hut at 7:30pm. Today it was SO busy… that I barely had time to pee. […]
where do they all sleep???
Hi! I read often but don’t comment too much… I was just curious as to how many bedrooms your house has and how you decided on who shares with who? Feel free to answer in a comment or blog post:) By Anonymous on Back to School on 9/11/11 There are five “real” bedrooms in our house, […]
together
“ I’m linking up with a blog hop of sorts, where you show your “themed” photos. This week’s theme is TOGETHER….and I think I have plenty of those kinds of photos to choose from: TOGETHER at the pool TOGETHER in the van TOGETHER in the hotel room TOGETHER in the bed Yep, there’s plenty of […]
I miss her
Today would have been my grandmother’s 87th birthday. She passed away in 2007, and I swear there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t think about her and wish with all my heart that she was still here. I grew up in the same town as her, just about three minutes away from […]
mommy guilt
Today I am feeling a little guilty because it’s a beautiful, hot summer day and we should be at the beach! the pool! a park! Somewhere other than in our house. Our boring, boring house. (or so the kids tell me. I, for one, can stay entertained for hours in my house. I love it here!) […]
The Good vs. The Bad
I was just giving thought to how quickly time seems to pass for me lately. I just can’t believe that my oldest will be 20 years old next month, and that my second oldest just turned 18 at the beginning of this year. I still have young ones, sure, but times goes so quickly…and no […]