This is our first time in a two-story home.  As I’m writing this morning, I feel like there is a thunderstorm occurring above me.  And the funny part is, they think I can’t hear them.  After putting them to bed at night, they always get out and creep around.  When we yell up the stairs,…

For my scrapbooking "extravaganza" next week, I have some homework.  I’ll be working on an album called "A Week In the Life".  So, I’ve been snapping pictures everywhere I go and recording details of each day.  One of the things we’re asked to do is share 3-5 things at the end of each day that…

WIG….. 16 Dollars PURPLE GLASSES… 2 Dollars SEEING MOMMY DRESS LIKE JUNIE B. JONES… PRICELESS!! For those of you who don’t know, Junie B. Jones is a storybook character that is very popular with K – 2nd graders.  As a room mom, I am helping Jacob’s Kindergarten class decorate a pumpkin as their favorite storybook…

Never mind the fact that it’s still reaching the upper 80s and sometimes 90s around here…we’ll still enjoy the pumpkin patch in all its manufactured autumn glory.

I have two boys…three, really in my life everyday.  And their ways are mysterious to me, but endearing.  This is Caleb dragging his beloved "blankie" into the pit that was the dinosaur bone excavation site.  He doesn’t mind the dirt on his blanket…in fact, I think he believes it will add to its charm.  It…

…and on unlikely days.  I am taking a moment this afternoon to just lay down and read a book (The Bronze Bow).  Tomorrow is moving day, which might cause you to wonder why I’m lying around reading a book?!  Just for a minute…my bones are weary and my progress has been great today.  🙂  The…

Tonight I am so tired of cleaning up messes. In the last hour Caleb forgot he had underwear on and pee’d all over the bathroom floor.  At the same time Jacob spilled a full glass of milk in the kitchen.  Uuugghhh! While I was on my hands and knees cleaning up Jacob patted me on…

I finally finished the book East of Eden by John Steinbeck this weekend.  I’ve been working on it for a couple of months.  But I feel a strong sense of accomplishment in reading 600 pages of Steinbeck!  It definitely isn’t my new favorite…I found it depressing, strange and even frustrating.  It was not an easy…

On Monday evening after dinner, I was having a stressed-out meltdown about all the things we have to do before we move (we closed on Tuesday…yeahh!!).  So Derek offered to take the boys on a short bike ride before bedtime.  Here is what happened to the Smith family in a crisis.  I call it my…