Eight. That's how many pull-ups I did  over the course of the day. Eight!!

You can clearly see that I am holding a cookie and it is not falling apart, and it is low-carb. But I'm not happy-...

We make encourage the kids to try food that they think they don't like, and remind them that they don't have to like everyth...

We were given a bag of fresh from the garden tomatoes the other day and Brandon said, "We really should have some BLTs with thos...

So many happenings haven't been recorded, so I'm just going to do a Reader's Digest version here. In no particular order....

Lily walked by the apple green vintage suitcase that houses the building blocks. "It's weird that they call it a soupcase,...

You can probably guess, by the fact that this update is 10 days late, that the news isn't good. I like to brag on myself way ...

(excuse the blurry pictures - Josiah was my photographer, and it was his first time with the big camera.  Unbeknownst to me, the camera...

So.  I tried chocolate chip cookies a few days ago. I thought maybe my baking mix was the culprit , so instead of using it,  I ...

I have been trying for well over a year to do a pull-up. (off and on; not constantly ) I've managed a few foot-assisted pull-ups ...

Looking out the window, I couldn't help but smile. Brandon has been making bows for the kids, and everyone was out there trying the...

Neither of my quilts are coming along as quickly as I'd like, but my stacks of finished blocks  are slowly getting taller. ...

We don't eat a ton of dessert around here, and I certainly don't go around experimenting very often. With food food, I'...

Over the course of 2 days, this beautiful girl read the entire children's Bible. All 512 pages of it! Momma loves you, ...

I haven't been taking many pictures with my good camera lately. Mostly because I am frustrated with my ignorance and my inability to...

I'm happy to have my boys home again, but gosh it was nice to not have to wipe up the seat/rim/floor every time I went to the bat...

Lori, from The Inbox Jaunt (who shares fantastic FMQ tutorials every Tuesday) posed the question today, "Who taught you to sew?...

It's quite easy to surprise someone  who doesn't have much of a memory to speak of. Yesterday, as you know,  was my turn wi...

I don't know if anybody noticed or not (I'm thinking not ...) but I didn't post a 4 week update 4 weeks ago. Here...

I do believe this has been my longest time  ever away from this space. T called yesterday, concerned, so I figured it was time to...