Posts in Kids, Motherhood, Shenanigans

Oblivion Tastes Good, But Oh, the Shame

February 9th, 2012 — Kids, Motherhood, Shenanigans

How is it that one can have such wildly varied emotions in the course of 15 minutes? I got the kids to bed, fell asleep for a blissful 30 minute nap while rocking Fiona to sleep, and then was so exhausted and emotional about the state of my day, that I could think of nothing… Continue reading →

Homebodies

December 13th, 2011 — Books, Family, Motherhood, Stay-At-Home, The Homestead

I’m not normally one to brag, but this is just too good not to share. Today, I left the house. With all 3 kids. Impressed? Well, maybe you’re not, but I am. I haven’t accomplished this feat in weeks. I’ve had some serious conditional agoraphobia. The condition being that I would only leave the house alone…. Continue reading →

Why Can’t Every Day Be Like Today?

December 5th, 2011 — Family, Food, Homeschool, Kids, Motherhood, The Homestead

Or should I say, why can’t I be like this every day? I was, how do you say….ON IT, today. We successfully got through everything I planned in school. I delegated some stuff to the kids (like switching out loads of laundry), which helped out immensely. They did it, mostly without grumbles. They watched Howl’s… Continue reading →

The Day That Just Kept Going

November 18th, 2011 — Husband, Kids, Motherhood

Oy. Today started at 6 am and was never-ending. The baby woke up earlier than usual and was just up. There would be no luring her back into the warm, delicious folds of sleep. I had already left the older kids a note assigning them some cleaning to do (we were expecting company later), so I… Continue reading →

Why Make 1 Big Change When You Can Make 6?

September 12th, 2011 — Family, Homeschool, Motherhood

So goes my motto these days. Did you miss me? I’ve been a busy bee and this may be my last post for another span of months and I won’t feel the least bit guilty because I’ll be busy. Alternately cleaning something, coding something, teaching someone, drinking coffee or maybe sleeping. But probably not. Since… Continue reading →

Missing All That ‘Free’ Computer Time…

July 13th, 2011 — Family, Motherhood, Stay-At-Home

You know, back when I was gainfully employed at a full-time desk job? Yeah. These days, I have yet to find a rhythm that allows me to care for the kids and find any time to get on the computer most days. At least not before about 9 pm. And then work calls. Thus, Ye… Continue reading →

Day 4 – Surprisingly Excellent

June 16th, 2011 — Kids, Motherhood, Video

Not that I didn’t have to raise my voice occasionally – these kids are perpetually high, I swear. But it was mostly smooth sailing. We worked on some presents for Father’s Day. We had leftover pizza for lunch. We even watched Free Willy (Don’t hate. It’s a classic!) They played outside in the yard a… Continue reading →

Days 2-3: Bad Then Better

June 15th, 2011 — Family, Motherhood, Shenanigans, Stay-At-Home

I’m not going to sugarcoat it. Yesterday effing sucked. I found myself questioning this WHOLE thing. What the hell was I thinking, assuming I could handle this staying at home with the (3) kids business? I was drowning, fast. We had to get out of the house and it had to be immediately. So I… Continue reading →

Day One

June 13th, 2011 — Motherhood, Shenanigans, Stay-At-Home

Note: started this post yesterday, but inexplicably remained incomplete until now. After the tragedy of seeing myself photographed Sunday, I went through a brief existential crisis in which I believed myself less capable of handling my first day at home with the kids. My life – ’twas flashing before my very eyes. “I can’t be… Continue reading →

Bliss, Mostly

June 11th, 2011 — Kids, Motherhood, Stay-At-Home

I hate to speak too soon, but I’m ridiculously happy to be free from my job. I’ve definitely had my concerns about how I will handle full time at-homeness with the kids, but when I walked out of that building for the last time on Friday, I couldn’t conceal the unadulterated glee on my face…. Continue reading →