Entries from August 2007

August 31, 2007

more how-tos (aka packing for 6)

you know, because i have it all figured out…
this is when we packed to go to my mom’s for 3 days.

i use gallon-sized freezer ziplocks.  and i put two kids’ clothes per bag.  i seperate them by days, and types of clothing.  for instance…  one ziplock contains pajamas for sunday night for my 2 youngest.  [...]

August 31, 2007

spinning

August 30, 2007

thanks.

following the news that the new small-town pharmacy only charged us $15.95 for the long-awaited zoloft (we couldn’t afford it ’til this payday) that wal-mart charged us $55 for, my husband said, “you mean i’ve had to live with you without zoloft for 2 months over $30.00?!”

August 28, 2007

lest you think we’re perfect…

a little dose of reality.
their daddy saw the boys doing this the other day…

daddy – “what’s that about?”

“I”

“HATE”

“YOU”

August 28, 2007

ok, so this may sound weird…

but i’ve been checking my site meter because it appeared that i was getting around 40-50 hits a day before i moved here and then it dropped to 2.  good grief.  so then i realized i didn’t point my site meter here correctly.  good grief again for a different reason.  and now i’ve been lurking [...]

August 28, 2007

musical beds

everybody went to bed in their very own beds last night.
and this is where my honey found us this morning.

this is boy2 in our bed.  but at 3:30a he was here

and why am i missing from my own bed?

because i’m on the couch with my infant – who also doesn’t sleep in his own bed.
(disclaimer, [...]

August 28, 2007

teaching art

i’ve always said art is not about how your hand draws, but how your eyes see.  (then i always crack up over the fact that the impressionism movement must have started with a severely nearsighted artist) 
yesterday we learned about the element of line in art.  that sounds all fancy but it’s really not.  i laid blue painter’s tape down on [...]

August 27, 2007

want to be challenged?

our church is participating in The C.A.L.L.  they showed this video a couple of weeks ago at church (i missed it at the time, but my honey said it was very stirring). 
it is truly a God-sized mission.  they are aiming to have no waiting children in foster care in pulaski county, arkansas by november 2008.  [...]

August 25, 2007

our weekend in *black&white* pictures

 

August 24, 2007

may your weekend be this much fun!