My potty training baby
My daughter Sophia has decided to imitate her big sister and start using the toilet. I’d say she’s getting there about 60% of the time...
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The Upside Down World ~ The Blog
- Jun 27, 2008
- 2 min
I’m driving my husband crazy
My husband on the other hand, is a creature of habit. He has rituals and routines. When these rituals and routines are disrupted, he...
- Jun 19, 2008
- 2 min
Activist Judges on Steroids!
Oh my goodness! We’ve all heard complaints about “activist judges”, but this moron in Canada absolutely takes the cake. A judge in...
- Jun 16, 2008
- 2 min
Adventurous Marriage?
“Just Because”. In it, the author talks about how her husband has a habit of bidding on large items on ebay which are “pick-up only”...
- Jun 16, 2008
- 9 min
Complicated Fatherhood
While it is all to the good that fatherhood is getting more attention, I’m very concerned that the call to “get involved in your...
- Jun 11, 2008
- 4 min
Gifted in Public
My kids and I took a little trip today to a local cave. It’s a sight seeing sort of place with some cool geology and stalactites and...
- May 15, 2008
- 1 min
Prayers for my mom
My mother is in the hospital. It could be something serious or maybe not. I don’t know if the doctors know right now and neither of my...
- May 12, 2008
- 1 min
See what happens when you work too much?
this would be one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. Down in Texas, a 13 year old kid whose dad was too busy to remember his...
- May 10, 2008
- 1 min
Not what you want to hear
came home to find a 3 minute recording of a battle their son was caught in on their answering machine. Apparently their number was the...
- May 4, 2008
- 1 min
Our House is a Very, Very, Very Fine House
I was helping my 3 year old do puzzles downstairs while my 22 month old, Sophia was upstairs in my room watching TV. I went to check on...
- May 2, 2008
- 3 min
Happy Birthday, Noah!
Tonight as I thought about my son’s entry into the teenage years, I realized that more than anything I feel amazed at where we are. At...
- Apr 17, 2008
- 5 min
It is family that will change the world
On the other hand, we somehow seem to think that children will survive all manner of things from being dumped in a crowded daycare for 12...
- Apr 9, 2008
- 6 min
Women’s Roles in the Bible
1. If the bible is unchanging, then it can not have been intended to communicate one thing to the people to whom it was originally given...
- Mar 25, 2008
- 1 min
Did you know that homeschoolers sometimes leave their homes?
I’m still waiting to get my internet back on, so I don’t have time to blog properly about this, but I just wanted to direct everyone’s...
- Mar 22, 2008
- 1 min
While I’m gone . . .
Be sure to check out this fantastic column over at Slate by Emily Yoffe (aka Dear Prudie) on the disaster of normalizing single...
- Mar 17, 2008
- 1 min
Michaela Rose
She will regularly come up to me and say, “I’m beautiful, Mommy.” Of course you are sweetheart. It’s so funny, I’m quite certain those...
- Mar 7, 2008
- 4 min
The Bitter Homeschooler’s Wish List
The Bitter Homeschooler’s Wish List By Deborah Markus, from Secular Homeschooling, Issue #1, Fall 2007 1 Please stop asking us if it’s...
- Feb 13, 2008
- 2 min
Spilled Kool-aid and Montessori Education
Many moons back, we had our oldest son, and for one year, our younger son enrolled in Montessori schools. When I began homeschooling,...
- Feb 9, 2008
- 2 min
Yankee French Bread
And now for something completely different. . . I’m going to share my family’s secret recipe for Yankee French Bread. Actually, I found...
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