Yes, really…we are getting CHICKENS! I must be nuts! Really. I have 5 precious kids and I educate them at home. That alone should tell you – she is crazy. To make things worse, we are in the middle of remodeling our home. We are doing it ALL ourselves. We have taken a couple months […]
Love Amid Ashes by Mesu Andrews Book Review
From the publisher: Drawing characters directly from the Bible and others from historical texts, Mesu Andrews, author of Love Amid the Ashes (ISBN: 978-0-8007-3407-7, March 2011, $14.99) weaves new threads into Job’s story, creating a novel that breathes new life into an ancient tale of suffering and redemption. Andrews began her research at Multnomah University […]
Organizing a family: Chore Charts
Organizing 5 kids [wpsr_pinterest] We have been asked two questions, numerous times by people who learn we have five children. “Don’t you have a t.v.?” How do you manage all those kids? Here are our answers. For the first few years of our marriage, we did NOT have a television. In fact, our first television […]
Garden Update: We have Growth!
Our Bean Tepees are coming along nicely! I can’t remember if I should thin the beans or not. I detest throwing away a perfectly good plant – I know it will choke the other one if it is not pruned – I just don’t like doing it. The Sunflower Garden I can hardly wait for […]
Instead of Birthday Cake – we had an ICE CREAM BAR
Instead of birthday cake… (Not this Princess but the other Princess had a birthday – just wanted to clarify for the sake of their non-existent baby books.) Our Princess had a party this past weekend. Instead of birthday cake, she usually chooses something else that is fun and sweet. This year we had an ICE […]
