Posted in Home Making, Mothering| May 22nd, 2010
{snort}
I snort because I personally do not like when other bloggers do weekend reading posts.
But if you miss the opportunity to read what is at these links, well, you’re crazy.
Are you a burnt out Mamma? Are you a confused wife? New Mamma? Heck… are you a girl?
Then you need to read these links, which I [...]
Posted in Home Making| April 30th, 2010
I’m doing it. I know I said I wasn’t going to.
I am making a Home Management Binder. It seems so faddish, so everyone is doing it, that I don’t want to do it.
But I need a place to empty my brain, so that while I’m making lunch I’m just making lunch. I’m not thinking about [...]
Posted in Home Making, Mothering, Quiverfull/Birth Control| March 31st, 2010
I found out I was pregnant with Charis when Arwen was about 9 or 10 months old. I looked from the pregnancy test down at the infant playing happily at my feet and thought, “What the heck?!”
Don’t get me wrong, I was super excited about having another baby. I really can’t remember what I did [...]
Posted in Home Making, Mothering| March 1st, 2010
Wasn’t that a Paula Abdul song in the 80’s?
Last week one day I panicked when Brent left for work. Yes, panicked. Not so fearless now, right? All this sickness and death and sleeplessness had totally deflated me and made me feel entirely discouraged. And I was absolutely positive that no one cared (which of course [...]
Posted in Ezra, Home Making| February 1st, 2010
This table has seen a lot. It was one of the first pieces of furniture my parents bought when they began their journey together. I bumped my head on the table edges as I learned to walk, I bet. My little brother’s high chair was pulled up to this table and we all sat around [...]
Posted in Home Making, Mothering| January 27th, 2010
I’m not saying I’m going to do a “Works For Me Wednesday” post every week, but I’m feeling opinionated helpful today.
First up: Pacifiers! None of my children have ever taken a pacifier. I’ve narrowed down the reason to be that I spend more time trying to build up a good milk supply and avoid nipple [...]
Posted in Goals, Home Making| January 3rd, 2010
I know I said I wasn’t going to do this, but as I have begun tackling the insurmountable task of finding a place for all of our Christmas presents, I’ve been mentally organizing the rest of my life as well.
Here are some things I would like to see happen in 2010:
Since Brent’s schedule is different [...]
Posted in Feminism, Home Making, Just blogging, Me-the mamma, Mothering| September 7th, 2009
Maybe it’s all the time I spent away from my home making duties (and missing it horribly, for real) the last two weeks that got me thinking. Maybe it’s the home making magazine I got in the mail last week that seemed filled with inaccurate over-glorified descriptions of motherhood and home life. I’m sure it’s [...]
Posted in Everyday Insanity, Home Making, Mothering| May 1st, 2009
Ya’ll know that song, right?
This morning I had the priviledge of arriving home from a rather euphoric trip to both Target and Lowe’s Garden Center by myself in time to witness the Calera 500 speed through our neighborhood.
We live in a train town. It’s nice and cozy and the comforting sound of the train’s whistle [...]
Posted in Home Making, Organic Gardening| April 28th, 2009
I couldn’t wait until tomorrow to show off how our yard is slowly shaping up.
There is a little wooded area down the street and last week during a photo shoot I realized that there were an awful lot of leaves just lying around! Arwen and I loaded the wagon up with bags and rakes and [...]