Lux et umbra vicissum…

I hate ragweed season. I tried to dig out our ragweed garden before it hit, but I only got maybe halfway through it. It’s all along our fence line on one side. Of course, we also seem to be growing some rather more interesting nasty plants. There’s, of course, the lovely thistles. My favorite, however, […]

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I thought it would be so much easier when I didn’t have one enrolled in preschool.  After all, I wouldn’t have to make a midday trip out to drop them off or pick them up two or three days a week.  Truth was, I was simply closing my eyes to reality, plugging my ears with […]

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It’s the day when I am delivered of the end-of-summer child boredom that leads to whining and fighting.  It’s the day that inspires so many parents to say, “Hallelujah!!  This is the day the Lord has made!!!” Yes, it’s the first day of school. Alexis was fully charged this morning.  She was so excited I […]

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Why do my children choose times such as this to outgrow all of their shoes????  Don’t they know we’re trying to save money here???????  And of course, at least three of them need new ones because we don’t have any in the size they need.  I’m hoping I’ll find some in our stash of hand-me-downs […]

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Joel’s at work, and now that Eli’s not eating Desta’s chapstick the kids all seem to be playing quietly for a moment.  I shall try to seize that moment…. Adoption: Home study update, which should have been done long ago, is finally within reach.  *pause to change a stinky diaper*  All we need, I think, […]

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PRAISE THE LORD!!!!! He (he’s way to large and clunky to be a girl) has been christened “Red Rover” by Alexis. God is awesome!!!!!  Now to focus those prayers on the adoption funds coming in… 😉

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That’s really what she looked like yesterday after I braided and beaded her hair and had her all dressed for church. 🙂 Eli insisted on being in the picture, too…

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Charis (sitting at the dinner table): My food will help me grow up! Me: Yes. Charis: And then I will get to wear pull-ups! And then I will get to wear panties! (At this point she starts getting very excited and clapping her little hands) And then I get to go on the POTTY TRAIN!!! […]

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I so much want to call someone and chat right now.  It’s not that I have no friends in the world, it’s just that the two or three I’m closest to aren’t home right now.  Cursed jobs that take my friends away from their telephones! My back is bad again.  I twisted it a couple […]

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Swim lessons…           A (chicken) pox on Eli! And this past week was VBS. I volunteered to work in the nursery, but due to there being plenty of workers in nursery and my almost-kindergartener throwing a fit, I ended up transferring to kindergarten. I learned something very valuable – large groups of small children […]

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