Okay, I love crunchy mama stuff. I do. I am crunchy in some ways, and can’t deny that–the home births, nursing toddlers, sleeping together. But today emails showed up in my inbox about the wonderful-ness of cloth diapering. Good God. Pffflllbt. I did that for eight kids. Back in the day disposables were expensive and […]
First thing this guy did around 9am? Yep, that. It was warm in the room, so I didn’t really cover him up, but that nightgown was by his legs, and he gathered it up to himself. Here’s a crowd out by the swings. This is Lydia, aka Kari, inspecting his flaky scalp. My sister came
There they go. As soon as they decided to get all this tubing crap out, the clouds arrived. Okay there they are, specks across the lake. Sam paces. And the rope broke, so they had to tie that back together. And then we loaded up all this mess and made our way home. Thank goodness
It was both–quiet and sunny, and everything that’s June. Football? Is that what’s going on here? We launched the paddle boat. My mother bought this for us a few years ago and it has provided endless hours of entertainment for many, many kids, not just these guys. There they go to cruise past the tooth
Does it get any better than a combination like that? We’re trying to get ready to go shopping here, and Julia’s helping Tim out with his hair tuft. Here we are back from shopping–all the new shoes. Awww, we found a really tired plumber on our patio. Okay, this is a picture of slobber. Probably
Dannell took these on the ride home–three tired little boys. And now it’s Tuesday and the last week of May. Onward to June. We are ready. love, Val
And that water is SOO cold still. How warm could Wisconsin water ever be? Little Jay had to go around the lake so many times–including an extra time to take Julia. He must have been about frozen, but he didn’t complain. The end. love, Val
Click on the picture and enjoy. I snapped it in a moment, but it’s very gorgeous. love, Val
Wow. He liked it, but look how he’s tucked his hands behind his back. Sam’s even impressed. He doesn’t know what the heck that was. Men, unimpressed by toads. These two are in their bathing suits and ready for action. This weekend was just absolutely zingy with bouncy energy flowing every which way. Today seems
