This little episode happened last spring. I ran across the pictures when I was going through my files and thought I’d share it with you, Internets.
It was a lovely warm spring day. The rain had ended and there was a perfect puddle waiting at the end of the driveway for Captain Earthquake and The [...]

photo credit: hmoreno
A member of my homeschooling group put out an invitation for a field trip to a ballet performance of Don Quixote at the end of the month. I’ve never taken the boys to a play or ballet because I didn’t believe they’d sit and enjoy it. But this sounded [...]

photo credit: woodleywonderworks
The Mercenary: Mom, where was that place we went…the one where we saw the beavers working and we were petting the sting rays?
Me: Well, that was two different places honey. The beavers were at the museum in Virginia, and the sting rays were more local.
TM: Virginia? We saw the beavers [...]

Hulloooo Internets! Have you been wondering where I was? Not to worry, I’m here working hard behind the scenes. Want to know a secret? There are some exciting things on the horizon for Earnest Parenting. I’m working on a new blog design! It’ll be a good 4 weeks before [...]

All the boys playing together nicely: today’s big event was dumping a huge barrel of plastic balls down the stairs and laughing at the thunderous noise.
Naomi’s post on a certain reality of life as a pregnant mom (warning language in link).
The Manager effecting a truly SPECTACULAR belly flop in the middle of the store today. [...]

Yeah okay maybe not so much a blizzard. Just thought I’d beat the meteorologists to it, since we haven’t had that particular headline locally yet. But we did get a bit of snow here yesterday.

It was deep enough that Hubby had to stay home from work and fire up the snowblower. After [...]