Happy Friday before Halloween! I’m inordinately excited about this Halloween because we’ve banned sugar from the house…but of course that rule won’t apply to Halloween candy collected by earnest, hard-working little costumed beggars. From whom I will steal. Yay, candy! I’m actually having visions of mellowcreme pumpkins lure me to sleep at night. Yum. Sunday [...]

I have no thoughts today, so I’m linking to funny-yet-depressing videos instead. One is more depressing (to me) than funny, and the other is more funny than depressing. Can you guess which is which? (A word of caution: the second clip has quite a bit of bad language so don’t watch it around the kids) [...]

There are some things that make the experience of a convert really amazing. While I constantly feel several steps behind when cradle Catholics get going about the corporal works of mercy or St. John Chrysostom (or any other saint who’s not really in the familiar lexicon), it’s all worth it when I stumble across amazing, [...]

 So to make up for yesterday’s really, really depressing post, today I’m going to fill your life with laughter and happiness. Well, I’m not actually going to do that, but I’m going to give you a list of movies that you can watch that will fill your life with laughter and happiness! The rules for [...]

The Ogre and I are fighting. I hate it when we fight. It means that he’ll work late, we’ll barely speak all day, the girls and I will have grilled cheeses for dinner, and I won’t be able to randomly throw myself into his arms when he does come home. It also means that there [...]

Last night, I changed a diaper. This diaper change was different than the countless diapers I’ve changed over the last five years. This diaper change was…well…disconcerting. Friends and family had warned me that sometimes, when you change a baby boy’s diaper, his tiny little boy part gets a tiny little…er…bounce in it’s step. It’s not [...]

We’ve made a decision. We’re going home for Christmas. This is a big deal for many reasons. Practically, we have three kids and only four arms between the two of us, so that makes an all-day shuffling from airport to plane to airport to plane on standby tickets all the more difficult. For me personally, [...]

I’m tired today, so no pithy comments, no witty jokes, not even a list of bizarre and funny things. Just me, tired. But not too tired to blog. #7 Nourishing Traditions I swear I’m not getting obsessed, I just thought I’d provide an update. We got through the week okay, and I thought every recipe [...]

You can’t always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you’ll find, you get what you need.  (Disclaimer: this is not a post about the Rolling Stones, but now I kinda wish it was.) The last few nights we’ve been having issues with our oldest, Sienna. Sienna has always been (and really still [...]

Here in our household, we’ve started a new way of eating. It’s based on research conducted by Weston A. Price, a dentist who examined the eating habits and health of primitive cultures, and the books we’re using are Nourishing Traditions and Eat Fat, Lose Fat. I’m not going to bore you with the details, I’m [...]