Teacher introduced me to Annie Leonard and The Story of Stuff just a couple of months ago. Since she’s been doing her thing for quite a while and I just heard of her I guess I’m a “Johnny Amy Come Lately.” I don’t really care if I’m not first on…
It was an unexpected pregnancy. We’d always planned to have five children – I even asked the OB right after Jo-Bear’s birth how soon we could start trying for #5. But shortly after bringing Jo-Bear home from the hospital Teacher and I looked at each other and realized that our…
One of my goals is to raise independent children who can take care of themselves. Being able to feed themselves is toward the top of my list, so beginning when they’re young my general rule is “If you hunt it and kill it, it’s yours.” For instance, if you crawl…
This week I had a prospective child care family come for a tour and interview so Teacher and the boys helped me tidy up. Our house isn’t usually dirty but with so many children around it’s often messy and cluttered. Would you like to take a tour while it’s still…
A while ago Ida Mae of Trees Will Bend invited me to participate in her “Change Overnight” nighttime cloth diapering event this month. This is the first time I’ve been asked to be a guest blogger so I was very excited! Instead of posting here today I thought it would…
I need your help! As part of my ongoing work freshening up this place I took a peek at my About Me page and was appalled by how grossly out of date it was. The photo was from two years ago, when Little Guy was a baby and I still…
Spoiler alert! If you’re the parent of a child enrolled in my child care program you may want to skip this for now and come back after you open your Father’s Day gift. Just a thought’… Everyone else feel free to keep reading for a quick and easy Father’s Day…
Great America, here we come! Superman is the roller coaster closest to the entrance so of course, our squad wanted to ride it first. I rode it last year and that was enough. Hurtling through the air on my belly watching the ground below me speeding past was too…
Morning arrived way too early; breakfast was scheduled for 5:45am. This was the first time we’d taken a strings group to competition in addition to the band so we weren’t sure how much time we’d need to get both groups ready. After the kids packed up all their stuff they…
Jo-Bear was in his school’s 5th-8th grade musical “Don’t Say No to the U.S.O.” this month. He even got a speaking part even though he’s only in 5th grade. I think next year they should have lessons on applying stage makeup. Why do I feel like he should be…
