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{p,h,f,r} Our Never-Ending Renovation Project
{pretty}The kids have been bringing me lots of weeds beautiful flowers from around the yard recently{funny}I caught the boys enjoying some quality literature together on the couch. Actually, Waldo is...
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The Simple Pleasure of Fitting Three Car Seats in a Row
We finally broke down and got some Diono Radian carseats! I'd been hearing about these for awhile now from other moms. Not only are they known as a particularly "safe" seat (which, frankly, I'm not...
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Our Mother's Day Tradition (Revisited)
[Note: This post is largely recycled from two years ago, with some updated photos/info]Mothers Day (or is it Mothers' Day?) just passed last Sunday, so I thought I'd share one of the ways our family...
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Those Rude Comments at the Supermarket
I've always hoped to have a large family. So for years now, my ears have perked up whenever someone was discussing life in a large family, in hopes that I might pick up some tips.One aspect of large...
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{p,h,f,r} Homeschool Method Research and Other Stuff
{pretty}No commentary needed :-){happy}Tom recently wired up some extra speakers in our house. Now we basically have surround-sound on the whole bottom floor! There are wall-mounted speakers in the...
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LuLaRoe - More Than Just Leggings
For about a year now, I've been hearing people raving about a company called LuLaRoe, and their "amazing" leggings. Some women I know especially seem to go nuts over the ones that come in crazy and...
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Slowing Down and Teaching From Rest
"last day of school" 2016We "officially" ended our first "official" year of homeschooling a couple weeks ago. It went well, overall, and gave me a good - though small - taste of what I've actually...
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The Closet Madonna
We have an abundance of Mary statues around here....an outdoor one who looks after our garden, a beautiful pearlescent one on our home altar, one in the dining room opposite a St. Joseph statue, two...
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My Favorite Children's Musicians
I truly enjoy listening to children's music. Probably more than my kids do. Pretty much all of the kids' music I consider "good" is actually folk music, which might explain why I love it so much.That...
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Mothering Days
A few days ago, the kids and I really needed to get out of the house, so I took them to the local Game Preserve. There's a pond with ducks and geese, a couple caged peacocks, and a bunch of buffalo in...
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Our Homeschool Year
I haven't paid a visit to my blog in quite a while. My best excuse for it is because we've started up our homeschooling year, and I've found myself with much less time. "back to school" 2016Sly is in...
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Our Thrifted Kids' Mass Set
For years, I've been wanting to get a nice little Mass set for the kids. I have long had dreams of my boys, in particular, playing priest, and asking me to sew them some sweet child-sized vestments...
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A New Room for the Girls!
Popular decorating trends and countless searches of Pinterest and Google had almost convinced me that there was no way to have historically-accurate dark-stained wooden trim in a bedroom and still make...
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Reconsidering Liturgical Celebrations
A blessed Advent to all! This is one of my favorite times of year, and I'm so glad it has come around again. We just got back to town after a long Thanksgiving trip, so I haven't yet dug out the...
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Nature Walks with Young'uns
As part of our Charlotte Mason homeschooling approach this year, I've scheduled in some regular nature walks with the kids. It's just every-other-Friday right now, alternating with our homeschool...
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December Photo Dump
Happy St. Nicholas Day!I took a photo of Stella with a fluffy little toy alpaca she found in her shoe this morning, and realized that I have a bunch of photos in my phone that I needed to transfer...
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April in Photos
Flora is one year old, and finally starting to pull up to standing. The other kids are engrossed in the Elmo's Potty Time video their Grammy sent, the latest in a string of unsuccessful ploys to...
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"Gender Reveal" Tomorrow!
Who will come out in the lead - the boys or the girls?I have my 20-week ultrasound scheduled for tomorrow, and I'm so excited to find out whether the baby is a boy or girl. We always find out. At...
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I Finished My Baby Blanket Just in Time....
...to find out that we are having another BOY!haha. Joke's on all of us, I guess. So this beautiful but very pink blanket will be going into storage for the time being. And I'll be beginning as soon...
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Summertime Plans
I can't even believe it, but our homeschool year is almost done! I thought I had mapped out our last term to end mid-June, but I recently checked the schedule I put together, and we just have until...
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How to Travel with a Large(ish) Family
We planned a stop at Sunday Mass in the middle of a long drive back home, which is why Sly's in a bow tie!As soon as baby #4 was born, we started encountering a frustrating problem. Most hotels would...
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First Day of School and Some Reflections on the Kids
We started our school year yesterday! Sly is in second grade now, and Stella's doing kindergarten. We're calling Linus "pre-school", but I truly have no planned activities for him. Flora, meanwhile,...
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New Baby!
On Friday morning, one day past his due date, we finally got to meet our newest little boy! After much heated debated, we finally settled on a name: Felix Amadeus.Felix = "happy, fortunate"Amadeus =...
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Felix's Birth Story
The pregnancy went fairly well this time around. I never really enjoy pregnancy, because it's just a long hard slog and so tough on your body, but I really didn't have any major complaints this time...
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Adjusting
Adjusting to having five kids (seven and under) has been a little slower than I expected. Heh. I feel like I say this every time I have a new baby. Seriously, I need to write myself a note and...
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