This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015I am a home schooling mom of four. Well, three and a half really, since the youngest is only 16 months. But he is learning every day from the older three, so I think that counts. Let’s say four, then. Okay. Glad we got that established. This is middle of our fourth year home schooling – we started when our oldest son was entering 4th grade Continue Reading
Reflections on Love
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015Today is Valentine’s Day. My 6-year old woke me at 3:30 this morning complaining of a tummy ache. Unfortunately, she complained about it loudly enough that she also woke the sleeping 15 month old who, even more unfortunately, still resides in our master bedroom. I stumbled out of bed and got her some crackers – she’s got a bit of a cold and I figured the Continue Reading
More Inner Peace Through Laundry
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015In my last post, I shared a recipe for Laundry Sauce – one of my favorite homemade laundry detergents that costs just pennies a load and does a great job. I mentioned a second recipe I love to use, and I’d like to share it with you today. This homemade detergent is in powder form, as opposed to the ‘pudding like’ texture of the Sauce. It’s Continue Reading
Inner Peace Through Laundry
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015It’s laundry day at my house. Actually, every day is laundry day because I have four kids, a husband and a dog – dirty clothes seem to propagate all on their own around here. But there’s usually one day a week when I do a full sweep of every hamper in the house and execute one big laundry bonanza. So today is that laundry day. I Continue Reading
Summary of a Bishop Keep Christmas
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015First of all, let me apologize for the lack of Farm Mama posts over the past few weeks. Between winding down the kids’ activities for the year, getting ready for Christmas (which was a frenzied process since we didn’t even start decorating until December 10th and hadn’t done ANY of our shopping before the 19th!) and preparing for a mega cold, snow and ice laden weather Continue Reading
Oh, That Smell
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015Late last spring my oldest was taking some things out of our family SUV when the back glass simply shattered. He was very upset when he came back in the house, claiming that he hadn’t slammed it shut or done anything to break the window – it had just broken all on its own. And as I had been watching him through the kitchen window, I Continue Reading
She’s Got “The Look”
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015I have a lot few pet peeves: Poor grammar and other language blunders; people who insist on telling me the entire plot of a movie or TV show; having to repeat myself because the object of my conversation wasn’t paying attention … these are some of the top things that irritate me beyond reason. Lately, well, for about the past 11 years or so, there has Continue Reading
In Sickness and In Health
This post was most recently updated on May 18th, 2015Well, I’ll be honest … after last year’s complicated, placenta previa -plagued pregnancy and c-section delivery of our fourth child AND the subsequent blood infection that landed me back in the hospital a mere 3 weeks later – I thought I’d seen the last of the “in sickness” portion of our wedding vows for a while. We had a round of the same about 9 years Continue Reading
