I’m Still Here……Are You?

So here we are in The Land of Humidity, Grass, and White Carpet.  We’ve been here a week and have already managed to wreak havoc in a way that only a family with nine kids, let loose in a large house that contains glass trinkets, white carpet, and floor-to-ceiling windows can.
Been a little stressful, it has.
(Hey!  [...]

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Homeschooling ROCKS! Here’s Why.

Quick post here since I’m up to my eyeballs packing!  We are leaving for a few months…..Yummy Man has to go to a Weather Geek class for a month and then we’re all going on vacation.  While YM is at his incredibly exciting class, the rest of us are going to hang out with my [...]

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Easter Morning

This morning at breakfast, I asked all the children if they knew what today was.  They all got the answer right except for 5-Year-Old.
She didn’t know it was Easter and, besides that, she didn’t even know what Easter WAS.
And it’s not like she lives in a house full of kitten-sacrificers.
So I jump headlong into this [...]

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Sign Language and Prayer

We’re heavy into American sign language here.
Heavy, I tell ya.
Every day we learn a myriad of new signs and even our smallest children join in, giddy with knowledge.
I love that.
Plus, the cuteness factor of my 2-year-old signing “fish” and “dog” and “CHANGE MY STINKY DIAPER, MOMMY!  THAT’S WHY YOU’RE HERE, RIGHT?”  is wwaaaaayyyy off [...]

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Another Absolutely Thrilling Post About Bifocals. This Will Be The Last One So Please Don’t Delete Me From Your Feed Reader. Is This Title Too Long, Kim. W. M.?

And Kim, by the way, is a long-lost friend of mine who was an English professor so now, every time I sit down to write this little ‘ole blog ‘o mine, I sweat.  And use dictionary.com and thesaurus. com a lot, whereas before, I really didn’t care because no English professors were reading.  Only other [...]

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Yummy Man

Tonight, as I type this, I’m a little miffed.  (That word makes me think of kittens but I don’t know why.)
I’m a little bit upset about what happened at the gym tonight.
See, there are two different kinds of people that go to the gym.  The kind that actually WANT to work out and improve their [...]

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Bi-focal Update (Now THERE’S a Title That Just Pulls You In, Huh?)

So I came home from the eye place ALMOST in tears.
And Yummy Man, since he has been married to me ALMOST 20 YEARS, thought twice about making fun of my haggishness.
And there’s ANOTHER new word for you because, yes, I am just that prolific.
Kinda like Dr. Suess.
But without the rhyming.
So.  The bi-focal thing? 
Not.
Happy.
About.
It.
I [...]

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The State of My Fairly Pathetic Vision

Tomorrow, I will be involved in a momentous occasion.  One that, heretofore, I have avoided desperately.  One that Yummy Man is anticipating with unconcealed glee.
I’m getting bi-focals.
Me.  Not-Yet-Forty Mother of Nine is getting PROGRESSIVES, which sounds way better than bi-focals even though we all really and truly know what I’m talkin’ about here.
I’m getting old.  [...]

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