-  This one is for Alice, Momma.    -  Oh yeah, baby?    -  Yeah, and that one is for Jude.    -  Okay.    -  And this one is ALL MINE, Momma.  This is mine.  I am going →MORE...

I have finally found a surefire way to get a nap longer than forty minutes out of Charlotte.  As soon as she starts acting a little tired, I put something on the floor (in this picture it’s a bobby pin) and →MORE...

Yesterday it occurred to me that I could not remember when, exactly, Charlotte had last been bathed or showered.  Was it over the weekend?  Last week?  Ten days ago?  Had she even seen soap in the last year? Since that seemed →MORE...

At the end of last week, I began writing my review of our pumpkins and witches home-school unit.  (Which was, for the record, an enormous hit.) It took forever. I wrote and I wrote and I wrote and I wrote and →MORE...

After purging their closet recently, someone passed a bunch of hand-downs to me.  There were a few bikinis in the lot so yesterday I went through and tried them on and picked one to replace my ten-year-old pink sparkly thing.  Finally. →MORE...