Month: December 2010

Sammy…you turn nine today. You are growing up fast. And even though I tell you every day, I don’t tell you often enough how much I love you and how blessed I am to have you as my son. It definitely has not always been easy. You’ve overcome so much…from the speech and development problems…

One of the many side benefits of homeschooling is the decrease in negative peer pressure.  For those that would make the same old, lame old argument about socialization, I addressed this (and others) long ago. But back to my point. One of the many ways negative peer pressure is applied to kids is in regard to clothing:…

Christmas, for us, is about the kids. We only do little gifts for us adults. This year, both of bigs (that’s one of the names we use for the older two) found something for me that not only cracked me up, but showed how well they know me. First up, Mika’s gift: Yep, that’s right.…

Merry Christmas! That is all. For now. 😉

We started a tradition years ago, and it unexpectedly has become one of the kids’ favorites. On Christmas Eve, we unwrap one gift each. Not just any gift, though…a particular one (and usually the only ones under the tree at that point). Christmas pajamas! They love it. We change into them and wake up in…

So, yeah, the design changed. Thanks for noticing… There will be some editing to do, since there were 3+ years worth of posts that were imported in and need to be categorized and checked over for other issues, but here it is. Until, of course, I find some other design that I like even more…

The new design is almost ready…there’s just one main change I want to make before releasing out into the wild. But…have to wait to hear back from the theme designer to see if/how it can be done.

It’s actually a crockpot recipe, but we cook it on the stove. And it is amazing. Black Eyed Pea Soup (Click there to view the recipe–she deserves the credit!) The main change is this…in place of the suggested sausage, we found from trial and error that using Hillshire Farms Hot & Spicy Italian Style Smoked…

If a picture is worth a thousand words, I have no need to post much more…(click to enlarge)

So, the import of the Blogger blog posts created a ton of broken links. So….easiest thing is, on the link you used, remove the .html from the link and they then match up…and eventually I’ll get this info on the 404 page.