We just moved to our new office. I am going to be here a lot of the weekend getting things how I want them.

Meanwhile, my boss already has everything just so. He also has this plaque on his door.


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I love garage sales, and so do most of my children. This weekend raffie and two of his friends and Michael and I went to a neighborhood garage sale day. This is one of my favorite things in the world to do.

Raffie and his friends found a very beat-up Disney princess car, one of those cars for little kids that actually drives, for $5. Raffie ( Read more... )

I got electroluminescent wire and glued it to my boot. Raffie was on my bed and I told him I was going to be filming. The following video is me show off my glowy boot while Raffie attempts to get me in trouble with CPS.

( how much I hate water )

I have no evidence that my children know how to turn the lights off.

so for this camping trip, I needed to make sure everyone had the necessary gear, right. These kids are Gen Z, none of them are on fb, none of them are even on insta as far as I know (Raff isn't, he made an account and did nothing with it). They were on snapchat for like 5 min. The only thing I know they use for communication (other than texting, ( Read more... )

I thought they wouldn’t get up to watch the dawn with me. But they did.


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This week I took ribs out of the freezer. “We need more freezer space,” I said. “So ribs.”

“Ok but I want to grill them this time,” said Raffie.

“I’m fine with whatever so long as I don’t have to do it,” I replied.

So yesterday I said, “I’m going to buy more ribs, figure out how to grill them while I’m gone.”

I got some additional ribs, and vegetables ( Read more... )

I drove raffie to his friend’s house because they are supposed to do a school project. They don’t have school tomorrow. (I don’t know why, they just don’t.)

Me: are you planning to stay over?
Raffie: probably, because, it’s a big project.
Me: and you probably won’t even start it tonight!
Raffie: we won’t even touch it. We’re just gonna do drugs.
Me: so ( Read more... )

So I implemented the chore chart. Yesterday was the first week. I revised things some this week- added a few things, reduced some others. I told them that it can always be changed if there is a problem with it. I listen to feedback.

Nae caught on fast; Saul saw her getting praised for getting her chores done early while he was having to do all his ( Read more... )