When Tyler was changing Lily's diaper this evening she told him, "You bless my heart." ~ That girl is a treasure! Her Papa is...

Lunch - as it often is - was a group effort. I was scrambling the eggs while Ton' was mayonnaising the bread while Brandon was dealing o...

The Master of the house is quite bothered by the fact that the woman hasn't bothered to post in an entire week. Figured I'd best rem...

I always said she was a doll-baby

was some dark jujumagumbo ~ The boys let me sleep in ridiculously late this morning and still I hadn't managed to wrack up even close to...

collection I have wanted this fabric ever since Ashley posted about the quilts she made with it. When I couldn't find it online anywhe...

That's what we did here. play ~ Daddy surprised us by taking a half-day off just to play with the kiddos. Nothing fancy just fixing (and...

We were talking about 'what does 'love' look like' during dinner. The kids shared some good thoughts. Then Jeremiah wanted t...

"I never realized money would be such a motivator for you." That's what he said last year after issuing my post-baby fitness c...

3rd place! although, honestly judging from the response of the audience we thought he would've been #1

well sort of..... I don't think she realized - until last night when she saw a video of Rachel Flatt ice-skating when she was 3 years ...

Ton' does! He's in 2 acts in a local talent show this Friday at 7:00 ~ tickets are $5 per person / $20 max. per family wanna come? ~...

Lexi isn't big on water parks

this and how it relates to parenting. It's especially interesting in light of the all the verses that come before it; God had absolutel...

here's the first of my reconstructed thrift shop finds this ensemble used to be a $1.50 ladies turtleneck and $ . 28 of ribbon and elast...

I bought a shirt from the thrift shop but it has sun-bleached streaks on one arm. I passed it up when I went last week but the more I though...

I had some fabric left after making a new pad for the highchair so I made these it's not too weird to have clothes that match furniture ...

I snuggled close, my nose mere centimeters from her satin cheek. I breathed her in, Perfection. Her eyebrows Her mischievous blue-gray eyes,...

If the thought of six more weeks of winter has left you pining for Spring head on over to the TNfarmgirl ; she can fix you up with the perfe...

"I'm working hard" "I like helping with lunch" "Guess there's not much work for you to do today" this ...

We were finishing up lunch (mushroom cheese scrambled eggs & biscuits) when Jeremiah said, "Mmm, this tastes like dessert." as...

Swimming suits are so much fun to make! We were supposed to be in Branson today whooping it up in the nice warm water but the hotel called ...

about this book ? ~ I wasn't going to use it this time around. Oh it worked well enough with Brandon but I just didn't really care ...

swimsuit shopping! "Oh, Momma - you look beautiful!"

Monday I emailed these gals after googling 'swimsuit sewing'. You know me - until I've attempted it and it's been proven oth...

I handed Lexi the green block, "Can you put the block in the bucket?" She took off the lid put the blocks in and went about puttin...

She came in the kitchen right after I'd reached up high and grabbed the red container. "You makin' oatmeal? I'll help!...