Yesterday we went with my parents in search of the perfect pumpkin. Of course, for Emery, that meant finding one that weighs almost as much as he does. “Hey Emery…you might want to choose a smaller one. If you drop that, it’s going to bust right open.” “Ugh. No, Mom. Ugh. I’ve (ugh) got it. [...]
Category Archives: Everyday Life
October 2011
October 24, 2011 – 5:07 pm
Well, I thought that giving myself a topic (like the homeschooling stuff) to post about every Friday would keep me writing, but apparently this was not a fool proof plan. With the “fool” being ME! October got really busy, really fast. My neighborhood had a garage sale the first Saturday of this month. We didn’t [...]
Summer Two Thousand Eleven
August 21, 2011 – 3:12 pm
It’s hot. The end. What’s that? You’d like to hear a little more about my summer? Well, okay. But it mostly revolves around being too hot to do anything that doesn’t involve air conditioning or a swimming pool. Except for this: I went to Youth Camp for a week with the middle and high schoolers [...]
Christmas in July
July 16, 2011 – 5:12 pm
Well, maybe not exactly. But waking up to a rainy 64 degrees in the middle of a deep south heat wave sure felt like Christmas! In addition was the fact that we all got to spend hours outside doing what we love most. For one little boy I know, that meant playing in the rain, [...]
Nothing
July 13, 2011 – 7:52 pm
That’s what we did today. Nothing. Yet look how Emery and I fell out around 5:00 this afternoon. You would have thought we’d been out workin’ the fields or something. In reality, the kids went to an art camp this morning for a few hours while I ran errands. We got home and all put [...]
