Year: 2014

One day when the boys were out of school for Fall Break, we took them to the local Corn Maize.  They have big slides, a bounce house, a train ride, a wagon ride, a corn pit, plus a couple of mazes (complete with gps tracking so you don’t ever have to really be lost).  The […]

  Sometimes a picture says a thousand words.   Sometimes, you can’t describe what is going on in a picture in a thousand words.   Sometimes you don’t even want to try.    

You know how when you get behind in something, it feels so much harder to get caught up?  Take the dishes for example.  Or laundry.  My life is laundry, so let’s go with that example.  You do laundry every day (with a family of 5 boys it seems necessary).  It isn’t a ton, but a […]

Tonight I was rattling off all the things I need to get done in the next couple of weeks to Kevin. Ricky was listening and said, “Wow, Momma!  It sounds like your plate is really small with a lot of stuff on it!” Yes, yes, son.  It is. There you go.

The cub scout Pinewood Derby was last week.  Ricky and Kevin worked on his car for about a week.  We are really big into letting our boys do a lot of the work themselves for these things, even though doing it ourselves would probably be easier. Ricky drew out his design and Kevin used the […]