Throughout Lent, but especially for the past week or so, I’ve attempted eat a strict Paleo diet. Not easy. Not easy at all, my friends. It’s a minute-by-minute struggle. But, for my body composition at least, the struggle is worth it.What I’m saying is, for the past 40 days or so, I’ve eaten more macadamia...Continue Reading
For the record, Sam and Elisabeth are often just normal siblings. Yes, they’re in school together all day, but each does his/her own thing and it’s not weird at all. Or disturbing.But then! After a week or so of Elisabeth absorbed in some pseudo school with Catie and Sam playing Pirate Bad Guys with Nate...Continue Reading
(At the end of this post are some questions about really important matters like Easter egg dye. Would you please leave your response in the comments? That would be nice.) As you can see by the picture above, spring is heavy in the air around here. The sunshine is shining, the kids are playing outside,...Continue Reading
Don’t let Nate’s sparkly blue eyes in this picture fool you. Since returning home from vacation, he is not so sparkly eyed. Or really all that happy to adjust to Central Time Zone. Let alone this whole “spring forward” nonsense.Because he’s still living on Pacific Time, he’s gotten into the habit of sleeping in until...Continue Reading
Lord, thank you for safe travels. Thank you the girls got all the autographs in their little, homemade books. Thank you the homemade shirts that (miraculously) fit. Thank you we have this picture. Thank you Nate smiled instead of running away screaming from the giant mouse. Really thank you for that one, since he looks...Continue Reading
Yes, we all look happy here. We also look exhausted. If Disneyland can call itself the Happiest Place on Earth, I have a couple other superlatives for it. The Most Exhausting Place on Earth is one, but I’ll show you the others first. The Most Crowded Place on Earth. Crowds are fun because who doesn’t...Continue Reading
For those of you following along at home, our second day to Disneyland was injury-free, save some scrapes and bruises of unknown origin. Actually, the origin was known, it’s called six tired kids walking around on concrete for ten hours. But they were all troopers, and the eye injury from the day before barely slowed...Continue Reading
We’re loving DisneyLand! Here are our five (minus Nate) kids in matching orange shirts, ready to take on the park. Well, because we’re starting slow, we were ready to take on California Adventure. Catie and Clara were fast BFF since Clara loved to be held and Catie loves to hold. The beautiful southern California weather–lots...Continue Reading
Remember yesterday when I told you about Nate’s newfound chattiness? Yesterday was also the day I tried to pack up our group of six for six days at Disneyland. But, oh, my goodness, with the chattiness. You’d think the three other chatty kids would have worn me down and given me the skillz to handle...Continue Reading
We’re nearly a week past Texas Independence Day, and I forgot to tell you that I family adequately celebrated with all manner of hoedowns, rodeos, and stomping around in hand-me-down boots. Great fun was had by all these Texans.(Side note: M originally second-guessed Sam going to school in a Texas-flag shirt. I find this ironic...Continue Reading
