One of the curriculum ‘thoughts for the day’ this week will be: “Little strokes fell great oaks.” I am loving the Christian, inspiring, aspect to our A Beka curriculum!!! Praise God!!!! I got really excited about this, as we can all apply this to our lives. Who can’t? Feeling overwhelmed?? Hey, man, it’s just one chop at a time. As I thought about this proverb, and how I would explain it to Joshua, I couldn’t help but picture the manner […]
» Read moreSometimes people reach out and help you in a BIG way. We had so much help this summer–okay–this whole past 13 months–it’s almost embarrassing! Even here–where we arrived knowing ZERO people–we had some help! Thank you so much, Hillary, for making us this HUGE spread of food, which fed us all weekend. Hillary had never even met us. She is a niece of our friends, Jim and Susie, and she did this just to be helpful. Boy am I thankful […]
» Read moreI am thrilled to report that I am back in action. The House of Many Little Men is 90% unpacked, 5% decorated, and today the cable man paid us a visit, so I can now finally be a blogger again! Yahoo! Thank you, Nonna, for making this possible!!! If Alan’s mom had not come to help with the unpacking, I’d still be more like 40% unpacked. I cannot describe to you how much work goes into unpacking a family of […]
» Read moreYou know those days where you just feel like…….BLEH. I’m good. I’m even really excited about moving into my new house on Friday, BUT…….bleh. Today I am reminded of the fragility of life, the reality of the military life, and well, my eye itches really badly. I’m allergic to weeds. The West coast grows a lot of weeds. Here’s the super condensed version of what happened on the journey out here. 1. If you have two children under four, you […]
» Read moreAs I’ve mentioned before, I have been a highly stressed and impatient version of myself lately. Last night I made a resolution for myself: Today I am going to be calm. I don’t care what happens. I am going to be calm, cool, and collected. I don’t care what the kids do. I will not freak out, panic, do the eyebrow thing, yell, or act irrationally. This is my goal for today. This morning, when I gathered the boys together […]
» Read moreYou wouldn’t believe the news I got today. Or if you are military,maybe you would. It’s easy to feel happy and hopeful when life is going pretty well. Sure, life is hectic always with little boys to take care of, but at least you can find some sort of ‘normal’ in that. We are all healthy. Things have been okay. Isn’t it funny how easy it is to shake your head at the whiners when your life looks pretty good? […]
» Read moreFor this small moment in time, I am at my parents’ house, and it is completely quiet! Quiet!! This never happens. This is wonderful. All I hear is the hum of the air conditioning! The baby, who has had a “summer fever virus” for three days, is sleeping. (Last night was a nightmare!) I took him to the doctor today, just to make sure he doesn’t have an ear infection. Thankfully, he doesn’t. It cost me a small fortune to […]
» Read moreWhen I told people that I was moving to California I got a lot of mixed reactions. Like this: “Oh, wow, it’s beautiful there. You are going to love it.” “Ooooh. Gee. I feel so sorry for you.” (sarcasm) “O. Tough assignment.” (more sarcasm) “Nice…except for the earthquakes.” (not sarcasm) “Don’t turn into a crazy liberal, now.” (never going to happen) “California….eh…that’s nice I guess. Californians are kind of different though.” (Aren’t we all? 😉 ) …..But mostly we heard […]
» Read moreI’m here visiting my parents and hanging out with my children. We’ve all been trying to catch up on our rest–my parents from their 2 weeks of 4 small grandchildren–and me from all the traveling. I am just so thankful for my parents. As many women are poring over parenting books, trying to figure out how to “be a good mom”, I haven’t bothered to do that much of that. Yes, I realize I’m far from perfect, but I don’t […]
» Read moreOff and on for the entire month of June, our family has been in the process of tackling this cross-country move. There has been stress, travel, excitement, anxiety, and a whole lot of “we’ll see when we get there.” Oh, and by the way, ‘this process’ won’t even be somewhat-finished until the first week of August, when we finally move into our new house, and our household goods arrive. In the meantime, we spend a lot of time crashing at […]
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