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. […]
Blessed Silence
Early this afternoon we were returning from The Cottage. It is a bit of a drive involving three different parkways. It occurred to me after being on the road for a little while that I was hearing nothing. I had had the radio off so the children could listen to A Midsummer Night’s Dream on […]
Karate Makes the Man
Almost twleve years ago a doctor placed our newborn baby boy in Dave’s arms. He welled up (he denies this) and looked up at me with love in his eyes and said one word…. "football." I smiled gently, I was too tired and emotional to say the words running through my head… "over my dead […]
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 […]
