I just got a package! Now if I were like my friend Sandy I would have waited till this evening to open it but alas I am not. I am me. So I q...

Tyler was 'singing'. Rather annoyingly, in my opinion. Of course, to be perfectly fair, it has been a long day and my nerves and ear...

Whaddya think??

It has been a l o n g day! Tomorrow will be even longer. Crackdown! To be entirely honest, it should have come months ago but the whole thi...

"yeah" "Do you want to do it again?" "No!" Not so with Josiah! "Was that fun?" "That was muc...

The pregnant woman sitting in front of you probably will not appreciate you kicking her chair -however gently- throughout the service. ~ I...

my exercisin' buddy! I have to wait till Lily is done eating her breakfast to do my T-tapp 'cause she will decide she's finishe...

Lily had a messy diaper not long after waking up this morning. So I took her in the bedroom to change it. As we walked through the doorway s...

One of the things I desire is for my children to show initiative. To see a need and fill it without being asked. It seems that girls are a b...

We didn ’t count as we were going along, but we calculated today that we looked at between 25 and 30 houses yesterday. We weren ’t looking t...

I did not. Today is, in addition to being Kiss & Huggin' Day, Flower Pickin' Day! Which may explain why Lily was so insistent o...

Last night when Josiah came walking into the dining room at 10:30 I squeezed my eyes shut. I buried my head in my arms; tears burned my eyes...

This morning Josiah was reading Go Dogs Go . He excitedly ran through the house exclaiming "I learned to read! I was reading Go Dogs Go...

and now I really could use some chocolate! ~ I'll miss those sweet curls but I actually like the new look better than I thought I would...

I am such a dingbat. ~ I just walked outside to get the diapers off the line and thought, "Mmm something smells good!" Which is od...

Brandon told Lily, "I don't know what I should get you for Christmas." (He is most definitely not a procrastinator!) She imme...

Tyler was finishing up a major project at work. Things were stressful, to say the least. We’re used to our papa working 40 - 45 hour weeks a...

I know. It's hard to believe but it really is true! LilyPie can count to six !! ~ what a big observant girl!

I woke up and knew instantly ‘today is the day’! ~ It was Sunday sixteen years ago, to be exact. We decided to skip church and went for a wa...

beautiful Baby L ~ I am not always big on technology but I do love ultrasounds! I usually prefer the bare bones sonogram to the more modern ...

Once upon a time I used to sneak into the kitchen to cook dinner. Doesn ’t work anymore. Hasn ’t in years, actually. Which is fine ‘cause I’...

Most of what I do to save money is so second-nature to me that I forget it might be 'news' to someone else. Dish soap for example....

or maybe not

Up until a week ago we hadn't been to the library in ages! Honestly the thought of taking these 2 boys to the library was less than appe...

I'm always trying to figure out ways to painlessly stretch our money further. Painless is key here. I mean we can only eat so many beans...

I hate to send a kid to bed hungry. Now I know my children have never been truly hungry, starving hungry, but still I don’t like for them to...

this video is kinda long probably no one but family will care to watch it... We sure are thankful for our little girl!! (and all our other h...

Central provided t-shirts for everyone to wear to Racing Day. Needless to say they didn't have any sized 24 months so inspired by this ...

not bad for a first-day-back LilyPie reading her note from Papa Jeremiah's note to Momma ~ much better than an apple!! ugh....MATH so...