Josiah has spent the last 15 minutes helping Lily walk, excitedly calling out every few seconds, "Lily's walking, Lily's walki...

We celebrate communion every week at our church. Yesterday Tim Bailey was sharing a sort of combined ‘communion mediation’ and a ‘her...

We have baby chicks!!! We found them on Monday. Our little hand-me-down black hen (which we haven't seen in ages so we figured killer-d...

Lily Pie has a couple of new words. She always says them together with great expression and often looks at her hands while saying them. The ...

I’ve been seriously interested in herbal remedies ever since Josiah was about 4 months old. I’d read an article with a recipe for a sleep ...

Tyler and I have been wanting to take Dave Ramsey's Financial Peace University classes for quite some time. We figured we'd better g...

who, for only the 2nd time since March 30, 2007, got to sit through the entire church service ~ yep that would be me! Lily had to get a few...

We keep the little ones in church with us. Unlike our smarter friends, it had never occurred to us to practice sitting quietly for church. I...

"Pearl's not here" he says when I walk up. "What do you mean not here?" "She told somebody that I was coming a...

I've been going through the house and getting rid of anything and everything I possibly can. We decided that Gus just wasn't earning...

Sandy’s hubby was talking about how he’d been impatient and unkind (my paraphrase) after a rough day. I can totally relate. I also try to e...

The boys borrowed my camera yesterday and took like 30 pictures in a matter of seconds. Then they decided that since they were now photograp...

We were laying down and I was smothering Lily with kisses. I was kissing her foot and she reached down pointed to her toes and said, "T...

no The Pie didn't get a haircut but she gave the lawn one yesterday. Check out that one-hand hold surely she'll start walking any ...

I think these shoes have finally had it. It's no wonder they've been through four boys! I know painter's tape really wasn't...

We finally found a spot for the last piece of furniture we inherited from Granny - Big Pa's chair. Among other things we got nine piece...

We went shopping for fireworks on Tuesday evening. Usually by the 1st of July we’ve already gone several times and could tell you the cheape...

Don't all little girls play with Batman and Chewbacca in their dollhouses??

I never intended for it to be a battle. She’d nursed for fifteen minutes the milk was long gone she was pretty much asleep so I figured I’d ...

I am really excited to share my first Frugal Friday tip. I’ve had my suspicions that this would work but I wasn’t positive. ~ I’ve been deal...

If Jeremiah happens to tell you "we have weed at our house" don't turn us in. ~ 'Wii' makes absolutely no sense to him...

I’ve read its customary to write ‘100 things about myself’ in honor of one’s one hundredth post. Um first of all that would be really boring...

I've had a couple people ask about my shoes well not my shoes the shoes I make ~ I was introduced to making-your-own baby shoes by my b...

The quality isn't real great (video, not subject matter :-) but I'm too technologically impaired to know how to fix it...sorry

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service. ~ I happened upon th...

Thanks to inspiration from my good friend, Sandy , I decided to try Walgreens again. ~ Tyler went with me (a date, you know) so we were abl...

we’re shrinking ~ I set the table yesterday evening for just our family; we’ve had guests for every sit-down meal since ‘the weddin’. (‘Set ...

Mr & Mrs. Luke H---- All throughout the planning and re-planning of the wedding we kept reminding ourselves of what was important:...

The flowers are here! We all pitched in to cut the stems and get them in water quickly. Lana had to run to Paul's to buy another bucket...

is finished! not quite the 'way ahead of time' that I was going for but it's done nonetheless. I'd do a happy dance but I ju...