Just for Imelda. 3 miles round trip on a bike to the grocery store for bread. I’m not going green on you, I’m just cheap and gas is almost $4 a gallon. Read more

We don’t eat there often, but when we are on the road, Subway is often our restaurant of choice. I love to get all of the vegetables loaded on my sandwich, and I know that among fast-food restaurants it is comparatively pretty healthy. So, what were they thinking? They are running a contest for children in elementary school to write a story about a sandwich, the only catch is “No home schools will be accepted.” I wonder why. What would... Read more

Congratulations to dadwithnoisykids and wifeofdadwithnoisykids who just announced that they are expecting a 2009 model(s) in January. This will be their 12th living child (or 12 and 13th). They lost their 15 year old son a month and a half ago. What a blessing this new life is to their family. Please keep them in your prayers, and if you haven’t been to Scorpion Stalking Duck….well, you should go. Read more

Bless me. Oh, Thank you.not too much to write abouthusband out of town life without schedulesseems like a good ideaperhaps in theory what time to get up?No one’s off to work or schoolalarm clock not set dinner is at fourno waiting for anyoneeat when you’re hungry fluid time scheduledays that stretch on forevernothing measures time just monotonyone day just like anotherplease come home, my love Read more

As any regular reader of this blog knows, I am the world’s worst housekeeper. Alright, that may be a slight exaggeration, but I’m surely in the bottom 10. I thought I had come to a comfortable acceptance with myself over this. I told myself cute things like “When you’re homeschooling, you can either have brilliant children or a clean house, but you can’t have both.” Good, huh? So here I was, just doing enough to keep the health department at... Read more

Welcome, Poland, to the sidebar! Thanks for stopping by, please come again! Read more

People keep asking me about my trip to Cincinnati. Was it exciting? What did I do? What did I wear? How cool was it? I fear that I am disappointing them. I just don’t know what they want me to say. It was interesting. I met a fascinating woman, Dr. Donna Harrison. If you have some free time, you should google her. An Ob/GYN who has made RU-486 her mission. She also, walked away from her medical career to homeschool... Read more

Please pray for the brother in law of one of the Catholic Cavemen. Trey has suffered a traumatic brain injury in an accident. He is in a coma and seems to be giving up. Pray for him. Pray for his wife who is now the head of her family. Pray for their child whose world has come crashing down. I have been that child. The child of a brain-injured parent. It is not easy, but I am so glad we... Read more

I got home from shooting the TV show “Facing Life Head-On”. It should air the 2nd Tuesday of June on TBN. Check your local listings for air times (I never realized that I wanted to say that, but it’s kind of fun.) Television production is interesting. It takes fewer people than I thought, but a lot more fidgety perfectionism. I don’t know how many times the producer (HI Teresa!) stop things to fix someones hair or adjust a light or... Read more

I’ll be gone until Saturday, so check back then or read your way through the archives. In the meantime, enjoy this picture of my new niece and namesake. (Her daddy, my brother, said it was okay to share these with you.) Read more