“You know what I want?”

I love how all my children talk in their sleep. When they dream I can always tell if it’s good or not. Most of the time they all seem to have good dreams and Bairno in particular has funny dreams, or at least dreams that make him rather happy. He often laughs in his sleep. [...]

Please pass the pause button

Moggiepillar

Life is happening in fast forward right now. I would like life to give me a pause button. We are still struggling without a washing machine, but by choice since we are waiting for the tax return to come in and then we can place our order! That thrills me to the bones. I might [...]

Failure

Yesterday was one of those days when I felt like a complete failure. A day that started out good enough but turned bad quickly. Homeschooling is a huge struggle for me. I like order; they prefer chaos. Without order I need a special white coat that allows me to hug myself for comfort and padded [...]

A near miss

I think my children are trying to kill themselves or see who can be the first to give me a heart attack. They were in the den, on the couch. I heard the thud. I heard the cry. It settled to a quiet sob fairly quickly then a yell at a sibling. I was slow(er [...]

Mama Blessings

Candy_tn

It has been a rough day. I would venture to say it even compares heavily to being a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day… …even in Australia. With the exception of one thing. from the front/side What is this, you ask?