I don’t usually pay much attention to fortune cookie sayings, but I had quite a chuckle out of these two from our Chinese takeout last night. “Your sense of adventure will lead you on a great vacation.” The above was particularly funny to me (and not to my dh) since …

For the non-homeschooling moms that read my blog, please don’t take offense, but I have to admit that I sometimes get a little jealous this time of the year when I’ve spent all summer catching up on things that didn’t get done during the school year, preparing for next year’s …

Earlier this summer, one of Nathan’s friends asked if he was going to play soccer this fall. We thought about it and decided he could even though NONE of our other kids have started any team sports this young – he’s only FIVE! The girls were in gymnastics when they …

You’ve probably noticed that I haven’t had much time for blogging lately. Now that our co-op year is over (not our “school” year), I hope to have a little more time for scrapbooking and blogging. Some of you might recall that I’ve been dabbling with some digital scrapbooking software and …

I saw the state map on Kristine’s blog and thought it would be fun to see where all we have been, but then I saw a bunch of other things at that site and decided to do several maps. I realize these are coming up way bigger than the space …

All of you moms out there KNOW we (moms) have a lot on our plates. This mom video is so funny. It’s what a mom does in a day condensed down to a little over two minutes while being sung to the William Tell Overture. I know it’s been around …

We had a nice slow weekend!! It’s nice to have one of those once in awhile. We managed to finish most of our school work even with a stressful day on Tuesday when we didn’t get as much done as we should have since we were all recuperating from Nathan …

For those who don’t already know, Nathan (our 4 yo) was lost for awhile this morning. Many thanks to those of you who were up early this morning to see this prayer request and pray! Whew. I hope to never feel so helpless again in my life! Several of you …

Of course, I’ve given Nathan the 3rd degree 1o0 times today. Why didn’t you just stay in the house?Why didn’t you go look for Emily?Why would you think we would leave you home alone? Why didn’t you just stay in the house and wait for the phone to ring – …

To answer a few questions. 1. I don’t normally schedule so much into a week. We’re always BUSY BUSY BUSY, but normally I wouldn’t allow so many things with “deadlines” to happen all at once. 2. To have 2 doctor appointments in the same week is almost unheard of… Jodi, …