I'm too scatterbrained to keep so many blogs. I'm now down to two, with an occasional post here when my life drives me over the top! Nephew issue finally resolved, all happy or quiet - will post details later ( Read more... )

DS2yo takes his pb and honey sandwich apart and eats each slice separately.
DD5yo thinks she says 'animals' but she really still says 'aminals'.
DD4yo cracks herself up with non sequitur knock-knock jokes than none of us 'get'.
DS9mo growls as he launches himself in to nurse.

I want this one: http://www.lifelearningmagazine.com/index.html

and this one: http://www.livefreelearnfree.com/index.html

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I am so frustrated with DD5yo and her crying at the drop of a hat! Argh!

DD5yo: Mama I can't find my dress with the rose ribbons! YOu put it away! :sniffle:
Me: No, I didn't. Did you look in the bathroom?
DD5yo: looks, returns with dress, in tears. This dress is the WRONG ONE! WAAAH!
(runs away, 15min of inconsolable tears)

DD5yo: No! I wanted to ( Read more... )

Kid-friendly yet useful ideas for unschooly open house days at my house ( Read more... )

Stop The Rod, and paticularly, To Train Up A Child excerpts and No Greater Joy excerpts.

Here's the people who brought you this: nogreaterjoy.org

I think I'm going to be sick now.

this sickness still ravages our home! my niece brought it from Belize, a few weeks back. she had been there for a year and I guess the foreign germs knew if they bided their time they could infect a whole new country. she started to feel sick the day she flew to Houston ( Read more... )

Is it just me or are there more mosquitoes now than there were when I was a kid in the 1980s ( Read more... )

now DS9m is sick. Hubs and I think this may be the first time in his little life that he's run a fever. He was very very sad and hot and sick last night, so I gave him ibuprofen. I medicate fevers if they interfere with sleep, and this definitely was. And I'm sick too but just a bit down, not as sick as the boys ( Read more... )