We found the following list on our kitchen counter. Grocery List Medical Store, Car Shop, Academy, H.E.B. Gun, 1 Knifes, 18 Tape, 2 Glue, 8 ...

This guy has been Abby's potty training shadow for a few weeks now.  We've had little success with the girls' potty training....

We saw this big guy on our back window this week.  He caused quite the excitement among the Crew.  Long after a photo op and some specula...

I'm not sure what brings things to the minds of our children.  It is a bit perplexing at times to figure out how certain topics and ques...

Here are a very few of the funny things I heard this week. Joshua to Claude: Wow, your teeth look like Russian rocket boosters! Han...

Claude is constantly saying that he wishes I could read his mind.  But no matter how long we're married and how well we know each other,...

I'm standing here listening to an almost 3-year-old say, "That's spantastic, Mommy!" Any guesses as to what is so amaz...

  He's smart.  He's handsome.  He has a great work ethic.  He is intensely interested in wild cats and world history.  He enjoys ...

The ladies at our church gave me a baby shower last night.  It was a real blessing, especially since I would never expect to have one for a ...

Birth stories.  They are amazing.  They are unique.  And they can all too often turn into a horror-story fest if we're not careful a...

Joshua just came into the living room to inform me that I owe a palace tax. "This," he said as he showed me a very colorful pi...

Hannah came running out of the bathroom today.  She was quite distressed and it didn't take long to find out why. "MOMMY!!!  Th...

ah...pretty much. We had a grump among us this morning.  This individual will remain nameless, but I'm glad to say that he/she was a...

I ran across another photo of our dry erase board.  I know, who takes pictures of their dry erase board?  Apparently I do!  :)  And here ar...

I had the opportunity to put the Abster to bed on her own tonight - just the two of us.  Usually we have family Bible time and I say goodni...

I ran across the following quotes recently.  Somehow, in the midst of chasing down two toddlers and nursing an infant, I managed to jot dow...

I'll admit that this post is a little very random.  The events described here didn't even happen recently.  But as I was preparing...

As I'm writing this post the kids have marched through the kitchen and living room about 5 times, shouting and yelling.  It seems that t...

Joshua's Rules for Fighting 1. Do not cheat. 2. Do not stab. 3. Do not hit. 4. Call 911 in an emergency while fighting. ...

Yesterday, the kids started talking about their friends from our weekly playgroup back in New York.  There was some fluctuation in attend...