Glory Itches

For over a year now we've been making our own laundry detergent. With such a huge family the cost of detergent was eating huge chunks ...

Little plastic bricks of varying shapes and sizes. Red, yellow, green, blue, gray, black, and white. Hair pieces, heads, weapons, legs, and...

We are a family of 8. We go through at least one gallon of milk a day, two loaves of bread every three days, and a bunch of bananas in one ...

As our kids are getting older, we've enjoyed using an advent calendar through the month of December. For years we've talked of doin...

When we moved here six and a half years ago, I began begging to tear out the carpet in the dining room. And last week it finally happened! ...

Linking up with the MOB (Mothers of Boys) Society today. Earlier today I posted the following article onto my facebook page. It was main...

Today I was washing the dishes. Thankfully that's becoming a less frequent chore for me because of the many little minions I have in th...

I read an article in this week's World Magazine that has me thinking. In fact, it's something that Josh and I have been talking ab...

I began homeschooling three years ago with grandiose visions of teaching my children all they would need to know about practical things like...

Do you ever have those moments when you suddenly realize that you've missed out on something for YEARS that would have made life so much...

The other day I needed some time to veg out. It had been a long day and my brain needed some time away from the reality of kids, houseclean...

Surely several of you out there in bloggy land have desks that are unused. Unused not because of their placement or impractical nature, but...

I'm sure many of you already think I'm nuts. But despite my normal craziness and the chaos of everyday life, I'm just not able ...