Okay, with the girls’ help I got the ceiling fans all cleaned, the windows all washed and the floor mopped last week. I added a few things to the Christmas lists and found a great box for our library books. I have the fabric that I am going to cover it with too. Overall I […]

Ah, motherhood. Completely amazing and completely exhausting all at the same time. Don’t you agree? I tend to feel right now that I have zero time for anything above the daily needs of my family. Laundry, cooking, schooling and nursing Elizabeth are the only things that are getting done. I am up early to try […]

Around here in the mid-west the weather is finally changing and fall is in the air. It is time for candles, fires, and pumpkin baking. And in my house it also means fall cleaning. Just like spring cleaning is done after the house has been closed up all winter and the air turns warm, I […]

Well, I actually fit all of my goals in last week which is just amazing because I spent one day running Elizabeth to the doctor, one day with her screaming almost all day due to belly issues and another day at the library for story time and such. I must say typing that brought a […]

  Well, last week I stunk at my goals. I am just not back to “normal” yet and I keep thinking I will do better tomorrow but it is just taking some time. So last week’s goals went mostly untouched. But that is okay. All six children are alive, the house is still standing, my […]

Can you believe it is Monday again and it is time to set our household goals again. With school back in session and a nursing newborn in the house life is super fast paced even though we aren’t even yet venturing out. Add on top of that a garden that is still producing and the normal […]

Well as you have probably seen either on the Facebook page or here on the blog Elizabeth Ann is here and we are all settling in to our life as a family of 8 now. And while I am very limited in what I can accomplish while recovering I am the type of person that […]