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, […]
Lessons I've Learned
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 […]
The Family Meeting
Eight days ago I lost it on the kids in the car on the way home from Costco and then I wrote this post after I decided that I was no longer messing around and I was going to have to make some changes. Originally I was going to wait until school was done to establish […]
Tomorrow is a new day. Thank God.
On a scale of 1 -10 in the parenting department today, I would give myself an F-. All patience had left the building before all the kids even got on the school bus. I didn’t just fall off the yelling wagon, I pretty much took a running start and set a world record in the long […]
What the flip am I supposed to do with this?
The kids are growing up so fast and life is so hectic with one kid now working and three kids on the swim team, one doing baseball, one doing t-ball, and me working every night. I leave the house at 4: 15, just as the kids are getting home, and by the time I get […]
Mom, What The Heck Are You Talking About???
Every year Number 5 and 6’s school does this 26-Days-Of-School-Left countdown where each day has a theme which is related to a letter of the alphabet. You start with “A” day and work your way down to “Z” day on the last day of school. Number 5 is the girliest of my girls, and she […]