Parenting books are stupid. Just going to put that out there. With all of their good advice on surviving their raising with the intent to (hopefully) not raise complete heathens scarred for life that turn around and raise more scarred heathens, they leave out the biggest part, the hardest part. Your job as a parent…
--- 1 --- I feel like it has been foreva! Ok because it has been. We have been busy working on the house. Which basically translates into utter chaos from sun up to sun down... and a mama that crashes at night instead of doing anything that involves processing thoughts. Sometimes mama has even crashed…
This is just a more in-depth look at this post. Warning: This is an incredibly long post mostly for our memory book. This is only upstairs, the children's rooms. I picked verses about character, blessings and training. Every stud has a verse. Front window: East wall: West wall:
I decided to break this into 2 posts because, well... I have no good reason other than I am doing these on my phone and apparently I was killing the picture post with to much data. Um, oops. So here we are. This is the detailed scriptures version of this post that explains more of the…
Ash Wednesday. The day we join together with others, form into that long line and as Father wipes the cross onto our foreheads we hear those words "remember you are dust and to dust you will return". What a sobering thought. Tonight, tonight is different for some reason. And I am filled with hope. …
Mardi Gras. Fat Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday. Pancake Tuesday baby! It is the last hurrah before Lent. Wish I could say we partied like, well Catholics before Lent. But we didnt. It was mostly a normal day but with the fun addition of... Mardi gras pancakes for breakfast! Ok so I needed a lot bit more…
--- 1 --- This 7 post thing hasn't been to horrible. The hardest part really is that i didn't start a day ahead. Which means here I am, at 9:30 pm typing up a post to publish in the next 2 hours. Which brings up 2 points: #1 it's late. When I get sleepy I…
Today's project was writing Bible verses on the upstairs studs. Wow what a project that was. Imagine writing sideways on rafters that are sloping towards you. Ha! Someone told me years ago they did it and I filled it away in the Remember for Future Use file. So glad I did! This house has been…
Also titled “How to attempt to not lose your mind in a 600 square foot off grid house with 6 children” Winter is hard for mama’s everywhere. Well except for yall down there in Florida or SoCal who apparently chose to not participate. Most of the country can’t talk to yall right now. Call us…
Well yall, it’s that time of year again. Hope yall had wonderful holidays with much love and much yummy food. And maybe a day or two of rest mixed in as well. 😉 Now that it’s all over, have you noticed how quickly the next season began? The posting of resolutions, goals, focuses for the…
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