"MAKE IT BREATH! MAKE IT BREATH!! NO! NO! NO! This can't be happening? Not now! Not this weekend! Do something honey? Make it work!"
"I am doing everything I can!"
"Come on honey, your a genius when it comes to this stuff! I know you can make it work again! Zap it or something. Give it a good swift kick if you have to!"
"I think the dishwasher is beyond repair. I don't think there is anything I can do for it. It's been repaired so many times, I think we should let it rest in peace."
"But it CAN'T break down now! NOT THIS WEEKEND! Not on the 4th! Come on honey, you are soooo good at this kind of stuff! I know you can fix it! If it doesn't get fixed, I'm gonna need your help washing all of the dishes by hand!"
"KIDS!...... Bring me my toolbag!"
Fast forward to an hour later........ (You don't want to know what kind of hard time the dishwasher gave poor hubby. It got pretty ugly at times.)
"HONEY, THE DISHWASHER'S FIXED!!"
Then, like a scene out of a love story, I run towards my gallant Knight/lover and leap into his awaiting arms and envelop him with numerous kisses.
O.K......Not really!......A leap like that from ME would probably land him in the hospital for a week. But I did give him a great big ol' BEAR HUG and cooked him the best tasting rack of BBQ sparebibs, with pasta salad, and corn on the cob for our 4th of July family picnic. Then I loaded the dishwasher, ALL. BY. MYSELF. (the kids did the cleaning up, clearing off and putting away)
And later that evening......, once all the chaos of the day had died down. I thanked the good Lord for blessing me with him!!!......
Hope your week is full of husbandly love and blessed beyond measure!
"That they may teach the young women to be sober, to love their husbands, to love their children.," Titus 2:4
Over the big mountain and through the winding roads to the strawberry patch we go........NOT!! Apparently Murphy's Law and his friends came along for the ride..........
"Uh mom, they have containers remember. So we don't need to bring any...."
Aw yeah, that's right!...............
16 miles and 1 hour later (if you saw these winding roads you would understand why it takes an hour to drive 16 miles).....we arrived at our destination....only. to. discover. that the farm was NOT where I recalled it to be......(Apparently, memory loss advances more quickly than you think it should when you reach a certain age. As much as I would like to be able to put the entire 'lost' adventure of the day behind me, our kids are never going to let me forget it.)
So....after a few more miles and exits and a few more 'How could it have just disappeared?' comments and a few phone calls to Information and friends who have never heard of the farm that you picked at just a year ago.... and as children's patience and exhuberance began to wain........we finally decided to give up and head home....but wouldn't ya know?.....as the good Lord would have it.....during our trip back home, we stumbled onto a totally different berry farm. One that was much closer to home, had more pick-your-own produces available throughout the year, and had a price that couldn't be beat!!!
Everyone was so happy to finally get out of the truck and stretch their legs. We had a beautiful time picking berries. The little ones had to compare strawberry sizes, the older kids had to race to see who filled their container up first..(competition has its benefits) ......THEN......I hear............" Excuse me? I am Jane Doe (not her real name, just my memory loss at work) with Orr's Farm?"
Me, who is thinking "(Aw, great! What did the kids do now? What did they do while I wasn't looking? I bet she caught them eating strawberries before paying for them? I wonder if the little one was throwing strawberries again? Oh boy! Did they crush a strawberry plant.)" I reply "Yes ma'am?"
Jane Doe "Would you mind if I took your all's picture?"
Me (who is now feeling a great sigh of relief), inquisitively reply "Us?"
Jane Doe "Yes! Of you and the kids picking strawberries. We would like to take a few pictures to place up on our bulletin board, if you don't mind?"
Me "No Problem! Thanks for warning me before you took pictures! I wouldn't have wanted my rear in the air while the photo was being taken."
Jane Doe laughs and proceeds to take pictures.....Being the natural models that they are, the girls had no problem pretending like they WEREN'T intentionally posing for the pictures. I just wish I would have remembered to have asked for a copy of the pictures. Memory loss at its best......
We picked 4 trays of Strawberries in less than 1 hour. Many hands make for light work as they say. Fortunately, I 'forgot' how many we ate.
This wasn't how I had originally planned our day...Rather, it was how the Lord planned our day to be! He planned this day especially for us! He knew we were going to get lost, He knew we would stumble onto this farm, He knew my patience was going to be tried and that prayer would be gained from it.......and in the end....it created lasting, beautiful memories for a lifetime.......
God bless you and your family in your adventures this week. May they create memories that will last a lifetime!
(Hmmm? These trays were nearly overflowing. It seems Murphy and his friends, Idunno and Notme had a snack/small feast last night.)
You know that old saying....You never know what you have until you lose it?......well, it's true! Every last word of it!
Without Internet I am unable to communicate with friends and loved ones as often as I wish. (nothing like spending an entire hour on the phone with a friend/relative, when you could have easily emailed 5-10 friends/relatives in the same time frame. Not that I don't like talking to my friends/relatives for an hour,... just that I like to be efficient....*wink*.... Plus the fact that it's harder to break away from a phone conversation when your son is trying to give his sister a 'swirlie' than it is to just stop typing in mid-sentence, save your daughter from life long emotional scarring, and come back to it later)
Without Internet, banking becomes harder and more costly. (I know what your thinking....No, I didn't bounce any checks...) I had to drive 14 miles in a 12 mile per gallon vehicle to do my banking in a town where gas is running $2.75 a gallon. So much for buckling down during this economy.
Without Internet, homeschooling becomes EXTREMELY difficult!! However, it does promote thought provoking decisions.....Do I drive the 33 miles to the library in a 12 mile per gallon vehicle, with gas running $2.75 a gallon, or do we put that research on the back burner until hopefully, Lord willing, the Satellite part arrives?.........."OK kids...if the delivery truck leaves India (OK so that's not where the part was shipped from but it's where customer support is located) at noon on Thurs and it drives 75 miles per hour one day and 15 miles per hour the next day, when is it expected to arrive here? " ............ "Kids, the math lesson for today is to estimate the cost of our gasoline to the library, then subtract it from our monthly Internet bill less our down time and see who really comes out ahead?" .....(answer: *&$*#^ Internet company)
However... I must say......the worst thing of all.......the WORST thing about being without Internet...........is not being able to re-order our Netflix Queue!!!
I was going to post these pictures last night but then we lost our Internet connection for the day. We were bad people and exceeded our Satellite Internet Providers Fair Access Policy guidelines. (we call it being FAP'd) We had to pay our debt to society and were punished severely by our provider with no Internet access allowed for a WHOLE day! So for a whole day we were 'out of the loop' so to speak. No phone! No Internet! No TV! A technical and/or electronic nightmare for most!
So.....
Here's the broken phone line.
This line runs from across the street.
ALL the way UP the hill to the pole:
Verizon is suppose to come out on Saturday to look at it. I am not getting my hopes raised on having service anytime soon. I envision a HUGE ordeal. In the meantime.... I am getting quite the exercise trying to make calls with the cell phone. At this rate....I expect to hopefully lose a few pounds by the end of the week. (just kidding....I haven't had a need for the phone....YET!)
Hope your week is uneventful and full of blessings!
I was going to blog today about our weekend project.. but who wants to read about us clearing out a section of the woods when there was a much more exciting incident to write about. Here it goes:
Well we had some excitement up here in the hills this evening. :o} I know.. I know...what's new?.. Right?.....There happened to be an incident this afternoon..... an incident involving a back-hoe and an underground telephone line...the telephone line put up a great fight but as you know it just wasn't any match for a back-hoe. The poh wittle phone line wost! It snapped in two under all that stress.
This...of course....means we do not have a telephone at this time for anyone who wishes to speak to dh....or me...or one of the kids....Due to the fact that there is no phone line to make a phone call...the repair call to the phone company will have to take place tomorrow while dh is at work and near a....PHONE!!! :o) Unless the phone company comes out right away....(hold on a second I can't stop laughing....'right away'...that's funny stuff..)....and lays a temporary line...we do not envision phone service for several days or possibly longer.....it was a MAIN line that provides service to two homes.
I do have a cell phone but it only works at the house IF I climb up on the roof, stick my right leg out at a 90 degree angle, place my left hand on top of my head, my right elbow must be at a 45 degree angle to my shoulder WHILE holding the cell phone to my ear and I jump up and down on my left leg all at the same time.
So in the meantime...I guess the kids and I will enjoy feeling isolated or cut off from the world....
Whatever you all do though...DON'T say anything out loud that lurking things could hear... I think Murphy's Law and his friends are still sneaking around here. We nearly had an injury yesterday that involved a kid, a tree, and a fall to the ground... So don't let it know that our phone line is out! Shhhhhhh!!!!
If I get a chance tomorrow I'll take some pics of the aftermath and post them.
He's only been gone for a mere 10 hours. You would think hardly enough time to begin to miss him. But as the saying goes 'you never know what you have until you have to do without it'. Yes! I miss my dear husband already but not for the reasons you may think.
It's a cold dreary rainy day here. I have had a sinus headache all day and we discovered we were COMPLETELY out of bread. Things have been a little chaotic this week as we have been taking care of several home maintenance issues so I haven't had a chance to bake bread. It's been store bought bread here and apparently I didn't purchase enough to last. ARGH! As options would have it Murphy's Law would have it, I didn't have the luxury today of calling dh and asking him to bring home bread after work. So my choices were to pack up the crew and drive a dreary nasty water/flood saturated 12 mile road with my nasty sinus headache to pick up a mere few loaves of bread OR.... bake bread at home. So.... I broke down and baked the bread. WELL....in my foggy brain state of mind (OK I know its old age but I can blame it on something else if I want to, can't I?), after I put the bread into the oven, I.FORGOT.ALL.ABOUT.THEM!!!!....I feel so bad because these poor loaves of bread were never given the opportunity to blossom into the fully potentially beautiful and deliciously looking loaves that they so deserved to have been.
The poor things! They are so UGLY!
Obviously bread is not designed with the structural support needed to withstand 6 kids who have been cooped up inside for an entire weekend and have more pent up energy than the Hoover Dam.
This loaf collapsed!
Dear Hubby I MISS YOU?...... When are you coming home?... Oh and would you mind picking up a few loaves of bread on your plane ride back. Thanks so much, your just too good to me/us!
Lesson of the day: When the team is missing a key player you will lose.....OR.... make sure you are stocked up on bread before your better half leaves for a week...OR...never bake bread with a foggy state of mind.
"Education is the most powerful ally of Humanism, and every American public school is a school of Humanism. What can the theistic Sunday school, meeting for an hour once a week, and teaching only a fraction of the children, do to stem the tide of a five-day program of humanistic teaching?"
- Charles F. Potter, Humanism: A New Religion (1930), p.128.
This blog is probably more of a 'what is this world coming to?' vent. I should probably start putting that in the subject line of my 'venting' blogs so everyone knows whether to skip it, lend an ear, or just pray for me/us.
Last week I went to a convenience store to purchase a few items and pick up a money order. The total was $309.00. I gave the clerk 13 Twenty dollar bills and 1 Fifty dollar bill. The clerk could NOT count the money I gave her! She literally took over 5 minutes to count the money. Apparently the $50 bill really threw her for a loop. Meanwhile the line is getting longer and reaching to the back of the store. As I, and the gentleman behind me, grew increasingly impatient with the clerk, I offered to count the money for her, but she declined. After 4 attempts to count the money, she finally decided to use a calculator to help her add it. She entered every $20 bill as she placed each one on the counter, into the calculator. Dare I say...I will never go back to THAT convenience store while she is on duty......
Then......this Wed.,.....dh took this picture.
It is of a subcontractor's employee who is holding up the progress on dh's job. Dh is a month behind schedule because this guy can't get dh the daily *HVAC technical stuff/jargon that goes into my one ear and out the other, while smiling and looking like I know what dh is talking about* reports that dh needs. This picture was taken at 9:15 am on Wed. This is the SIXTH TIME dh has caught him sleeping on the job! Which has earned this guy the nickname 'sleeping beauty'. It has become a HUGE problem in getting 'sleeping beauty' kicked OFF the jobsite and a more valuable person to take his place because of the subcontractor he works for. Then, if that's not enough to make ya mad, dh found out 'sleeping beauty' is showing up to work on Saturdays, (because he is so far behind schedule, you know) and charging the company that dh works with for HIS OVERTIME!!! Dh can't fire him because he works for another company. The company that dh works for has been trying to get 'sleeping beauty' kicked off the job for over a month now, but the subcontrator refuses. Even AFTER they received this photo! And to think this subcontractor came highly recommended...tsk....tsk....Needless to say, this subcontractor will never work for dh's boss again, OR receive any sort of recommendation!
So...where has the work ethic gone? Where is the old saying 'Son, if you work hard, you'll make it far in life!'? I remember a time not too long ago when people were fired for sleeping on the job. Now they get rewarded! I remember a time when people didn't have calculators and actually knew how to add, subtract, and count back change without a computer or calculator giving them the answer.
At least I can have hope in the homeschool movement! A new era of children, soon to be adults, who will have been given the proper education and instilled with a work ethic and love for the Lord that this world is obviously missing and lacking.....
Keep up the hard work homeschooling Moms and Dads! We are changing the world. Even if it is only one child at a time.....
Vent over!
Have a very blessed, labor intensive and productive weekend!
"How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? when wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man. Proverbs 6:9-11
"A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight." Proverbs 11:1
"The wicked man earns deceptive wages, but he who sows righteousness reaps a sure reward" Proverbs 11:18 (NIV)
Shhhh! I am lying low today. Staying out of sight and hopefully out of mind. You see, I live in a house FULL of practical jokesters and comedians. Today is the day they go at it. They believe that today was made just for them. A free for all in playing every trick they could have ever thought of. A day to get even with the jokester who succesfully pulled a trick on them last. For some odd reason, I seem to always be the prime target of the jokesters shenanigans.
I just don't know why they all have to pick on poor little ol' me? Could it be because I am the one who originally started the rubber band around the faucet's hose trick? Or could it be because I am the one who likes to intentionally flush the toilet on the poor unsuspecting person in the shower? And who said I was the one who turned everything on and up real loud in the truck? It's just a joke. Can't they take a joke?
I will be using extreme caution when sitting down, opening up doors and turning on the faucet today. Oh! and I should be sure to check the toilet seat before I sit down too and to use caution while approaching blind corners in the house.
If you happen to be in our neighborhood today...Just be on alert and extra cautious! The jokesters are in their prime today.
A friend of mine emailed this quote to me today. It describes our month fittingly! Murphy's Law and Chaos seem to have re-gained their powerful thrones this month. Our family is fighting the battle courageously and I believe the tides have finally turned and we will once again triumph over Chaos and its friends!
"Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working."
Have a very blessed, stress free, and chaos free week!
It's demise wasn't as dramatic as most other appliances deaths have been. It died quite suddenly while being pushed past its physical limitations. And no matter what type of interrogations you put me under I will never admit that I had something to do with its demise while creating a Me and hubby devised chemical science project. No, I will NEVER admit to killing the Food Processor or reveal my hubby as my accomplice. My lips are sealed. Mum. is. the. word.
Since I haven't been in the market for a food processor for quite a long time do any of you have any recommendations?
I would like everyone to know that in the event that I cannot be located. Please tell the officials to look for me here first:
This is my home....uh...closet away from home right now. I have been quite busy catching up on loads of laundry brought on by the stomach bug and his helper Mr. Murphy.
You might also tell the officials that they may want to interrogate Mr. Dryer on my wherabouts. Methinks he might be in on some of the shenanigans around here. I have found it quite interesting how the pairs of socks lose their partner/better half only AFTER they have been placed into the dryer... I really hate to be judgmental. However, I really can't overlook the overwhelming amount of evidence that points directly to Mr. Dryer. I really think it is up to something.......
Note to self: Put the fire extenguisher back on the floor where you can grab it. If the dryer catches fire how on earth will you be able to reach up and grab it? Sheesh!
We have been here for two years now. This poor machine has probably never worked harder in its 2 years with us than in its ENTIRE past life. At 3 loads a day, times 7 days a week,...times 2 years.... PHEW!!! It makes me tired just thinking about it.
Just last week, when the wash cycle began, I thought I heard it groan at me. I had to tell it I was sorry and throw a few sympathetic expressions its way. I was afraid if I didn't it might do something horrible and drastic to me, like break down or something. I LOVE my washing machine! I couldn't bear the thought of life without it! And every now and again I do throw a light load its way. Everyone needs some down time once in awhile... Don't they?
I often wonder how my great grandmother, a mother of 8, managed without one....... That poor, poor woman.....
Oh yes! I am incredibly and truly grateful for the modern conveniences of life! Thank you God for these wonderful servants of neccesity!
Wouldn't you know it!...Just as I am about to send myself to bed for the night..I hear that definitive hack-cough sound with the long moan that is known to quickly follow, coming from our girls bedroom..
Being a mother for well over 18 years now, has helped me acquire many skills. One of which is mastering the art of children's sounds and what they mean exactly. For instance, hearing the sounds of silence from where children should be playing usually means someone is up to no good, the sounds of loud thumps followed by a long pause of silence, means that someone just received an injury, depending on how long the pause of silence is will tell you the significance of the injury and how fast you should be running towards the child.
Anyway.....I was clued in to what just happened, without having to be present for the ordeal, due to my lifelong experience, and the fact that our 4 yo child hinted that her tummy hurt right as I was putting her to bed. Being the wonderful, kind, caring, and very compassionate mother that I am (am I pouring it on too thick?), I informed this child her tummy hurt because she ate too much popcorn and promptly tucked her into bed, but had the foresight to place a bucket next to her, JUST in case....
This child shares a full size bed with her sisters. SO!!!.... Wouldn't you know that when she exploded she decided to share it with her sister's. Not only that, but she had to walk from the bed to her dresser (the opposite way to the bathroom) and covered just about EVERY blanket and pillow in closest proximity of her during the process. She managed to miss the bucket entirely but left a trail in the carpet that any blind and non smelling dog could locate with pinpoint accuracy! Fortunately for me, she covered 75% of the contents of our blanket and pillow supplies. You see, the girls had to play 'fort' in their room today and only folded the blankets and placed them on the bed and floor when told to clean-up, instead of putting them back into the linen closet, out of harms way. (Hmmm? Murphy's Law must be back in their room again...) The other 25% of our blanket supplies are keeping boys and dear hubby warm this evening....
After a quick bath and change of clothing, the other girls were shipped out and budded up with siblings and Dad. You know, CLEAN beds for the night. The 4 yo had to have the full sanitizing scrub down with STRONG smelling soap. She was then dressed in easy to take off PJs (gotta LOVE those nightgowns!) and placed back into the now stripped bed with a sleeping bag. I would have changed the bed linens but our second set was still sitting in the washer since today was the day we CHANGED bed linens and I had yet to dry the last load of laundry for the day, which just so happened to be the girls bed sheets. (gotta love that Murphy!) Being the accomplished mutlitasker that I am (motherhood teaches you this), I was able to accomplish these tasks WHILE carpet cleaning the girls room!
Since one comforter takes up the entire washer, and the washer is never kind enough to rinse 'EVERYTHING' (a real mom knows what I mean by 'everything') out the first time through. I have to play nursemaid to the washer to make sure the linens come clean of 'EVERYTHING'. Either that or run the comforter through 2-3 normal wash cycles. I have 3 comforters to wash, one mattress pad protector, 1 set of bed linens plus pillowcases, and an area carpet (thankfully it's small enough to fit into the washer too, but only all by itself). For those of you who don't like to do the math, that works out to be... a full 6 loads of laundry! 9-12 if I decide to just run the comforters through several cycles. *SIGH*
OH! and wouldn't you know...we just used up our last stockpiled pantry stash of ginger ale at supper tonight. (gotta love that Murphy guy!) So I get to look forward to making a mad 12 mile dash to the supermarket in the early morning. Thankfully we are at a stage in our lives where we have built in babysitters. Phew!
I just hope the poor little thing gets a good night rest after her ordeal this evening!!!
Before bedtime this evening, we spent time watching Hannah Montana video's and I just can't seem to get this song out of my head.. "This is the life...hold on tight...this is the dream.....la la la......duh duh da duh.....nah nah nah.....This is the life......." I think its fitting. Don't you?
Now...where did I put my stash of chocolate...oh never mind.... I don't have much of an appetite for them anyway.... *SIGH!*.....
I am in the chattiest mood today. I have been eager to blog all day. So, I have had all day to decide what to blog about. And guess what? I still have no idea what topic I should put down on paper, er, I mean...type up...
Do I blog about our first day back to normal programming? Do I blog about how it took us over an hour to figure out how to run a simple DIVE Cd? It wasn't the Cd that gave us problems but our computers. After a good 30 minutes of getting frustrated with the desktop and its volume issues I finally called in one of the kids to figure it out for me. (YES! sadly, the kids know more about computers and technical gadgets than I do. If I can't figure it out they can for me.) It was determined that the desktop is missing programs (whatever that is) and so we moved on to a laptop whose volume control has little to desire and could stand a little more 'get up and go' for this very loud, boisterous, and large family.
Or do I blog about my favorite kid sayings of today? Where the 4 yr old and 8 yr old were playing vigorously and the 8 yo announced to her 4yo sister that she would be right back because she had to go potty. Then the 4 yo began to race her 8yo sister to the bathroom (you should have been here to see that, it was a knock down drag out race) and announced rather loudly "I hafta go fiwst cause I have more dan you". (How does one know they have more to potty than another? Hmmm? I'll chalk that up to another mystery of life) Or where the 14 yo was overheard telling his 11 yo brother (who is OBSESSED with feeding the Deer on our property), "I don't think the deer drink tea?" In which the 11 yo quickly replied "I KNOW THAT!"
Or do I blog about my epiphanies today? The one where I went to put the dishes away and realized 'hey, somebody has ALREADY done them and I DIDN'T HAVE to tell them 846 times to do so. Matter of fact, I didn't have to tell them ONCE. They just did them!!!' FINALLY. FINALLY. FINALLY. all those years of training may (lets be sure to emphasize the word 'MAY') have finally paid off. Or the other epiphany where I realized that we actually accomplished more school today even with our major computer glitch than what would have been accomplished several years ago when I had soo many littles running around. (Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't have traded those extremely chaotic and exhausting days for anything..... I am actually starting to miss them quite a bit.)
Since I am in such a chatty..uh..typeable sort of mood..I have finally decided to blog about my blog.
A very good and dear friend of mine sent me this book: "Calm My Anxious Heart" by Linda Dillow. I have yet to crack it open and it already has me thinking.... It's a Bible study on helping you find contentment. And it has had me thinking about things that I am not content with (and I haven't even cracked open the book yet).....After all...God IS SUPPOSE to be more than enough for us! Isn't he? I could say more on that subject but that's another blog for another time...... Anyway..I have gotten sidetracked.....where was I?......Oh yeah...
As I was thinking about what to put in my blog today, I placed more thought into how I would like to be able to do this or that with my blog. I am computer illiterate... or technically challenged, as my children have so graciously pointed out to me. For the 9 months or so I have had my blog I have wanted to research and learn how to do all that fancy stuff to dress/pretty it up.... BUT..I also knew where my priorities should be and spent my spare time on those priorities and not with my blog...So as much I wish I had the time to learn the terminology of how to dress up my blog, I decided today that I will be content with what I have. This blog may seem dull without all those lovely side bars, flashing gadgets, beautiful wallpapers and lettering that many other bloggers have. But when I stop and REALLY think about it.... This blog IS me! It may seem dull to some but it fits me. Plain....., simple.....sometimes flustered or tired....., but has quite a lot within it! So...., if you come over to visit my blog. I hope your coming over to visit with me and my family and not keeping away from it because of the way it looks. How's that old saying go? "Don't judge a book by it's cover/title."...... (Which one of our sons quickly discovered when he went to read 'How to Kill a Mockingbird'....)
SO.....
Come on over..., have a seat..., and I'll go get you a cup of tea. Well...maybe... the container's still in the fridge.......but someone only left a sip in it.....hang on I'll make some more...it will be just a few minutes........uh... *SIGH*......I see were out of tea bags...can I get you a glass of water instead?.....
Now she knows she's not allowed on any of the furniture. But I just didn't have the heart to reprimand her this time.... Trying to keep tabs on 7 energetic kids, hubby, my sis, and me is quite an exhausting job!
And I must say.....after these past few weeks, along with last month's chaos....... I share her sentiments completely!
I think I am going to curl up right next to her and catch some well deserved and very needed Z's for myself!
I have had this resolution for the last 20 yrs and I have NEVER had a problem keeping it! You should try it sometime. It's great to not have to worry about falling off the wagon.
Confessions of a SAHHM (Stay At Home Homeschooling Mom). SAHHM to six children, 3 cats, 1 German Shepherd, Chaos, Murphy's Law, Notme, Idunno, and one incredibly loving and patient husband! :o)
If I haven't blogged recently, it's probably because chaos has gotten loose. It does that from time to time. Rest assured I will be back as soon as it is under control again.
But I did give him a great big ol' BEAR HUG and cooked him the best tasting rack of BBQ sparebibs, with pasta salad, and corn on the cob for our 4th of July family picnic. Then I loaded the dishwasher, ALL. BY. MYSELF. (the kids did the cleaning up, clearing off and putting away)
I just wish I would have remembered to have asked for a copy of the pictures. Memory loss at its best......
