Happy Birthday, Adam!!!

Happy 37th Birthday, baby! I love you so much. Can’t wait to celebrate with you tonight! And to all the friends that celebrated with us… THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

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Fall Break ~ Spookables and Other Such Halloweeny Things!

Maybe it is because it is my husband’s favorite holiday. Maybe it is because fall birthday anticipation is ramping up. Maybe it is the irresistible draw of beautiful autumn leaves. But fall and Halloween is almost as big as Christmas around here…almost! The kids have been caterpillar hunting, jumping in leaves, making scarecrows, dressing spoooooooky just for [...]

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101 Ways to Use PUMPKIN in Kid Friendly Dishes

Okay…maybe not 101, but a lot! Canned pumpkin finally showed up at our store a couple of weeks ago and at 99 cents a can I stocked up! I’ve been doing a lot of on-the-fly cooking lately and have enjoyed experimenting with this nutritious staple. It’s a super easy way to get the kids to [...]

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Little Ru

Got to take pictures of little Ru today. Price of digital film = FREE Price of natural light = some elbow grease and a little muscle Price of fresh new baby skin = PRICELESS!!! Congratulations, Ted and Melissa!    

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Sew Simple Owl Softies and Mommy Time

This week I made the kids a promise. A week of undevoted mommy time. Each kid picked a number and that was their special day with mom. After breakfast and chores they would have my undivided time until lunch to play with them how they chose. They spent the past couple of weeks pouring over [...]

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Fall Break ~ Caterpillars and Remembering 9/11

We’ve been on fall break around here. For me that entails LOTS of extra cleaning and organizing around the house. (Have you noticed it’s been kind of quiet around here?) For the kids it has entailed caterpillars. You may remember our post about our monarch caterpillars? Well, after several died due to Tachinid fly parasites, [...]

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Large Family Chores: Mopping

I’ve been reading a wonderful resource lately… Kim Brennenam’s Large Family Logistics (visit her blog here). The book is good for me. Most is common sense and stuff I’ve heard or already knew but the key to this book is how she takes all that knowledge and brings it together into a workable solution for [...]

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