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Our house feels like a small zoo with animals and kids galore. Just in time for spring we ordered butterfly larvae and a butterfly garden to keep them in. Painted ladies to be exact. They just emerged from their cocoons today and the children are so excited. What a fun learning experience it has been. [...]
“How can it be a large career to tell other people’s children about arithmetic and a small career to tell one’s own children about the universe? How can it be broad to be the same thing to everyone and narrow to be everything to someone? No, a woman’s function is laborious because it is gigantic, [...]
{ image via Flickr’s We Heart It } What is a woman to do when she is spending 24 hours a day in a tiny hospital room with a sick baby? Well, when he isn’t be snuggled and played with and while his sweet, red head is sound asleep in my lap I was planning [...]
Life in the West has been busy { as usual }. I am so excited. We manifested a beautiful, large home. What a joyful blessing! For those who remember my last post about Feng Shui and the New Year, we rearranged the house keeping all large, heavy pieces of furniture off the south wall. Three [...]
This past week brought me to my breaking point with the kids, messes, cats, and disorder. I’ve been struggling to keep all things afloat as a geographically single mom (thanks to another Army school). So, after a rough week filled with many responsibilities both online, outside the home, homeschool, and church related Sunday rolls around. [...]
Having a large family today isn’t as common as it was a hundred years ago, but there are still couples having large families. Since it isn’t the norm and many people are curious as to how large families function, television has decided to hone in on a few select families for reality television shows. Families [...]
Our littlest Princess is getting close to giving up her title of the “littlest”. I’m due with our 8th baby, 7th daughter on Thursday. We have finally come up with her name, which will be announced with her birth. In the meantime, Bella is dressing up daily and insisting her neighbor friend is her “knight [...]
“Nothing happens until somebody sells something.” – Mary Kay Ash I truly believe that teaching children at a young age to be entrepreneurs will benefit their lives forever. My parents taught us through their example how to run small businesses and make money doing virtually anything. I’m in the process of writing two articles, one [...]
I am a very blessed mother. My kids have been planning Mother’s Day for over a month. They made this purse from a skirt. The kids and grandpa made me this breakfast tray from an old picture frame. This is my breakfast in bed…Boston Creme yogurt, milk and orange juice with cinnamon rolls. It was [...]
Pink is friendly, warm, sweet and cheerful. With so many girls in BelleView Cottage you can imagine that pink is a favorite color here. My son bares the color tolerably and without complaint, not that he has to wear pink, mind you, but he has grown to enjoy it as a part of the rainbow [...]
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