Number 5 and 6 have the same birthday, and their birthday this year was on the day after the last day of school, the first official day of summer for us. So we had a party. Number 5 had seven friends come over, and Number 6 had three friends come over. Just like last year, […]
Archives for June 2016
Can you hear me when you’re on the mound?
Last night Number 3 had a baseball game. In the third inning, he went in to pitch. Number 3 is a pretty good pitcher. Really good, actually. And this year he’s been super confident on the mound (or the bump, as Number 6 calls it), and it’s been fun to watch him pitch. But last […]
We are already having a great summer and it’s not even officially summer yet.
Our last day of school was on Thursday, so it is officially summer for us here in CT now. But we unofficially kicked off our summer last Monday. I have been determined to make this summer one that is close to the kind of summer I had as a kid. An unplugged, less scheduled, more relaxed, […]
This summer just got a little bit better.
A couple weeks ago I wrote this post where I described the kind of summer I wanted to have this year. A more relaxed, old school kind of summer. And I kind of wrote it as a list, but I didn’t necessarily think that I was actually going to do every single thing I […]
Five is Seven and Six is Six.
Happy Birthday to my favorite six and seven-year-olds! (And yes, they are EXACTLY one year apart, and no, I didn’t have C-sections!) It seems like this was just yesterday. I can’t stop you from growing. So instead, I guess I’ll do my best to be mindful on the ride. Please keep voting!
22 Lessons I Learned When We Almost Lost Everything
If you’ve been around here a while, you know that the past few years have been financial hell for my family. Three years ago we had to file for bankruptcy. Two and a half years ago foreclosure proceedings started on our house. Two years ago we went on food stamps. Things got worse from there. Things […]