Here are my assistants preparing my icon boards.  They were so good.  They did not do a good job by iconography standards.  But I was able t...

This week, I have begun to wonder if I need a grief counselor to help me with the loss of this last pregnancy.  A lot of people have anno...

  The things people do not tell you could kill you.  The things they do tell you could heal you. The Natural Disaster I feel like my do...

Our fifth baby has passed on.  I immediately told myself that this baby was never really mine.  All of us belong to the Creator.  "The ...

...Don't tell your kids. I'm 7 weeks pregnant.  I'm not too secretive about this fact.  I feel awesome about it, hopeful and...

I decided to have an impromptu painting day to teach the kids about mixing colors.  So I printed a color wheel off the internet (I love tech...

Well, I thought I would blog about Annie's birthday, but I decided to make a movie instead. Annie likes to feel special.  So I thought a...

Higgle Wiggle First thing after breakfast all the children went the back yard to play.   In the yard, the baby pool was full of water f...

Sometimes when the girls are grumpy, whining or throwing fits, I ask them if they want to play big baby.  I swaddle them in a blanket; feed ...

A few weeks ago I had a Franco-American book binge.  I read Bringing Up Bebe and French Women Don't Get Fat.    Bringing Up Bebe was int...

I attribute our relatively smooth home school days for the past two weeks, and free time for myself to our new chore tags, and parental, no ...

I'm not going to say that I am bad at getting pictures of the children.  It's really that the children are bad at getting ready in g...

I am totally amused at the making of my passport photo: -two side tables -three table lamps -one child sized chair -poster board -mask...

We went to see the Cataldo Mission one Sunday after Liturgy.  It's the oldest building structure in Idaho.  It was built by the Jesuit m...

It's been a busy week of swim lessons and home school. The kids have swims lessons each morning Monday through Friday, and we stay in ...

Ready to Ride This little girl is the worst traveler of our family.   We had to entertain her the whole way.  It was a pain.  Then sh...