So yesterday was a fun day for us here at Earnest Parenting. We spent our first day as a family at an amusement park. After a slow start, a good time was had by all. Certain individuals came home with mild sunburn, and after an extremely late night I’m letting everyone sleep in. Shhhhhhhh! Don’t [...]

We’re going with better late than never publishing this week’s edition of Fun For Your Friday. I’ve been working along trying to get the lawnmower back into shape. With TechnoBoy and (a lot of) Hubby’s help, we got the oil changed, replaced the air filter and pre-cleaner, and replaced the oil filter. We also took [...]

Happy Friday, Internets! We’ve been enjoying surviving a serious increase in heat and humidity this week at Earnest Parenting. On Wednesday it was so hot that Captain Earthquake took an old Ovaltine container, filled it half way with water and asked for some aluminum foil to put over the top. He was convinced that it [...]

Good Friday, friends! I’m happy to report that the computer which crashed so spectacularly is behaving now. Do I have any idea what went wrong? Nope. But 3 virus scanners assure me that nothing is wrong and all is currently going smoothly. So, I’ll smile about that. And with some more smiles, here is the [...]

Welcome to Fun For Your Friday Saturday, Internets! We’re a day late but well rested here at Earnest Parenting. After several consecutive looooong days of going to the fair, we took yesterday off. And by “off” I mean the boys cleaned their rooms, fed the chickens, went swimming, and loafed in front of screens. I [...]

Good Friday, Internets! You’ll be pleased as punch to know that we washed 8 chickens in 45 minutes without injury last evening. Granted, I don’t think we got them as clean as a die-hard poultry showman would, but they’re clean enough. We’re going to go with that. Especially since the older boys couldn’t be here [...]