Yesterday BFITW and I drove down here to Chantilly, Virginia to attend the Immaculate Heart of Mary National Homeschool Conference. It is the first time either of us have managed to get to a conference and we are so pleased to be here. This conference is really well organized. As a former event planner I […]
Dining on the Bay
When dad is not scheduled to come for dinner and soccer is scheduled right through dinner time what’s a mom to do? Well this mom takes all the kids drives them through the local fried/fat/bad for you joint and parks the car at the local docks to have an impromptu car picnic. It was a […]
Domestic Bliss
What do you do on Ascension Day when you are stuck inside with a sick kid? You do all things domestic. So today I continued with my "beefing up breakfast" obsession. I started with this. I used yogurt, blueberries and milk to make smoothies and then poured them into pops. A few hours later this. […]
A Joyful Noise
I thought I really had it together this morning. I should have learned by now that this is a sure sign something is going to go wrong. On the first Sunday of the month we have started attending a Tridentine Mass in a town n the east end of Long Island. It takes us about […]
Keeping it Real
Danielle has posted about the reality of our lives versus the life we blog. She describes a situation where a person in church complimented her on her patience. This happens to me a lot. People see you out and about with seven kids and as long as you are not behaving like a screaming lunatic […]
