A farm next to us had baby goats! The children *loved* seeing them! Except for Mr. Littlest. He loudly proclaimed we "need" a baby goat "but first we need a garden". When she invited us over to come play with them, he wanted nothing to do with them. But was more than happy to be…
Happy Valentines Day!
We were on the front porch, looking in the window at all our children playing in the little house my love is building for us. Before you think it was a peaceful play, let me say the generator was running, so from my perspective it was a peaceful play. The reality inside might have been…
Secret Santa Shopping
Helping Poppy with the treeWow - all I can say is:We are half way through the Christmas Season! The children decided they wanted to draw names and do Secret Santa again this year. There is no way I was going to stop my children from voluntarily doing a kind gesture for a sibling. Names were…
BabyGirl is 6 weeks
BabyGirl is 6 weeks. Do you hear our collective "awww". It's so cliche but so true - it goes to fast! She has had a big week! So here's 6 things about BabyGirl: Do you see what she is doing here?? Yup. Trying to (re?)find her thumb - just like all of our other girls did. This…
Back to life, Back to reality
Its been 5 crazy weeks since Baby Girl joined our family. Holidays, health issues, just plain chaos of adjusting to life with a new baby.Brotherly loveShe is doing great. We had a few rough days around Thanksgiving. She thought she would try this new thing - crying. A lot of it. Like all. The. Time. …
On a Warm December Day
The crew +1While I know it is still technically fall, it is almost Christmas, which generally means cold weather. Today's just didn't hint towards that at all! December 1st - and it was a glorious, beautiful 75 degrees! I am so not complaining. Mr. had to work today so we stuck around the inlaws.What better…
Getting back in the groove… slowly
Baby Girl is so little on our big ole bed!!We spent the weekend at the land.Oh Glory Glory!! Don't get me wrong - I love that the in-laws care enough for us (and our health) that they are willing to open their home to our chaotic bunch for going on a month now - we are…
Pictures!
Ok, so totally not related to simple living, or building tiny, or anything like that - but it is our family blog and I want to show children pics 😀
Rough recovery
Whew, ok, well now that we got that little blog post mix up fixed, back to new thoughts! Life has been interesting since Baby Girl's arrival. Mr. Littlest finally started talking to me again, even snuggled with me and asked to hold Baby Girl! Poor little guy just couldn't understand how he asked for a boy (named…
Guess what…?!
Edited to say: in my wonderfully working "got it all together" mind, I thought this was published last week. Ahem. Oops. Yet, sadly, goes along with the rest of the post... Mommy brain fog... Lord help me... us...Sorry for my slackerdom the last few weeks. (And yes, that is totally a word! Spell check so…
Together Simply 