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Happy Birthday Lucy!

Lucy turned 8 on Saturday!  We had a lot of people over.  Good thing too because I made three cakes.  Here are the kids lining up for some red velvet cake (which was good, but

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Tips for Reluctant Helpers

This post is scheduled to run on Latter-Day Homeschooling today. I’m really hoping that I am not the only one here with reluctant helpers. It’s not that my kids are bad, they are just VERY

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Notice Something?

This is my eldest sweet angel boy. This is my youngest sweet angel boy.  Notice something? I’ll give you a closer look. No, not the angel in the snoopy hat.  But I can’t blame you

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Spencer

After every quiet time I look at Spencer’s room and see what else I have to confiscate in order to minimize the damage to him, the house and his things. When I put him in

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Emma is Six

Happy Birthday sweetie.  Sorry I’m weeks late in posting.

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Lucy

This is what Lucy did on Thanksgiving.  She’s reading A Christmas Carol. Ok.  Now the real story.  She read along while we listened to Jim Dale’s unabridged audiobook version.  It lasted about five minutes.

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Hi!  Nice to meet you :)

Hi, I'm Courtney.  Mom to six, wife to a man with a fabulous red beard and an adorable chin dimple.  Said fabulous man is a trauma therapist and, according to our six-year old, the "best step-dad in the universe."

We spend our days juggling jobs, kids, and sending each other gifs instead of actual having an actual conversation.  Read Our Love Story Here!