Last night the cat caught a tiny mouse and Number 4 rescued it and named it Chester while I was putting Number 5, 6,and 7 to bed and when I came downstairs she tried to convince me to keep him. We didn’t keep him. Today was a long busy day and Number 4 had a […]
Parenting
I’m Bringing Back Sunday Dinner
With the craziness of our weeknights, I really want to bring back the Sunday night dinner whenever I can. Tonight I did. I had planned out dinners for the week last Monday, and I had everything I needed already. Here’s what was on the menu tonight: Roast chicken: (I used this recipe from Allrecipes.com. Everyone […]
I Kind Of Hate Trunk-Or-Treating (except for this one reason)
Tonight our town had a trunk or treat. I don’t really get trunk or treat. Like, if you can’t go trick-or-treating — which, let’s be honest, is all treating and no tricking — then sure. I get it. But there is plenty of candy to be found on actual Halloween. How many times do my […]
Faces In The Window
Tonight we found ourselves in the rare situation where we were all home before 7 pm on a Friday night. This hasn’t happened since August. Normally I’d take this opportunity to catch up on a few things. But earlier today I came across this post I shared on Facebook two years ago: And then you […]
Monday Is The New Sunday
Now that it’s October we have entered swim meet season which means that 1-2 weekends per month will be spent at the pool. Number 6 also started wrestling this year, and he will have wrestling meets — do they call them meets? or are they matches? — on the weekends starting in a month or […]
Clean Sheet Night
Back when I lived in Pennsylvania I had a friend who was also a teacher and she was about 10 years older than me. We were at a party or something and we were talking and I remember her telling me that she had a rule about no sex on clean sheet night. Meaning the […]