The Setting: Our dinner table.  Three oldest kids sit on a bench on one side, Ellia (2.5) sits at one end, Miranda (11 months) sits at the o...

In the past 24 hours, she has: smeared petroleum jelly all over her legs, arms, and hair during nap time drawn on her cheeks and pal...

Since we were planning on staying the night around the Staunton area, we wanted something fun and different to do on the way home on Friday...

Ellia has become quite opinionated about what she wears. It's almost funny, but not really. It can be incredibly frustrating to try to...

My three dancing Princesses.  Marissa (5) dressed them all up and they were thoroughly enjoying dancing together.  Melted my heart in a rea...

Annika:   "Mom, I wish I were a grown-up just like you.  And I wish I was your mom!" Me: "Well, God made me to be your mo...

We're installing some new shelves for better organization in the master closet this weekend. I was putting together one of the shelves...

We got a really nice snow on Christmas night and the next day.  Ended up with 8-10 inches.  That's pretty unusual around here.....and th...

My 6.5 year old son gave this to me on my birthday. Brought tears to my eyes.

What is it with kids and eating boogers? Seriously! We were in the car driving today and Annika (2.5) piped up, "Mommy, I not eating a...

Last night at dinner, we were eating a chicken noodle casserole and green bean casserole (recipes forthcoming sometime in the next month as ...

Last night as we were driving home from church and I was reminding the kids of the bedtime routine to be carried out immediately upon return...

Marissa (4) has a little Dalmation Webkinz named Penny. Yesterday we were at Target and Corban (6) begged to go look at the Webkinz they had...

No new recipes floating around....we've been incredibly blessed to receive meals from friends for the past week, so I haven't been c...

The other night, we were having salmon for dinner. Salmon is Corban's absolute favorite, except for burgers and fries. Marissa, on the...

Corban has been studying Creation in his Bible lessons for school. Today as we were talking about the creation of Man, he noticed a picture ...

A few nights ago, as Grant and I were putting Corban to bed, one of us made some comment about his little Army men set up in battle around h...

Being of a fair complexion, I have pale eyelashes that make mascara my make-up item of necessity. I never leave home without it! This morni...

Marissa (3.5) has become increasingly observant about other people lately and isn't shy to speak her mind, as children rarely are. I ha...

Marissa(3) has a new favorite pastime....pretending she's a cat. We don't own a cat and never will, due to extreme allergies on my p...