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 [...]

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 [...]

Hey! It’s Friday again. Time for some fun, don’t you think? Today everyone at Earnest Parenting is enjoying a sunny day with weather that’s not fantastically hot and sticky. Yay! We’re focusing on chickens here as we get ready for the county fair coming up soon. I have to say, showing chickens is a bigger [...]

Good Friday, Internets! For todays Fun For Your Friday edition, I’m enjoying a slightly cooler day and a cute picture of the boys at the beach last summer. Or was it the summer before? I forget. Guess we’d better get to more beaches this year, eh? Welcome to the July 9, 2010 edition of fun [...]

Happy almost 4th of July, Internets! It’s a beautiful weekend here in the land of Earnest Parenting, we’re looking at sunny days and time with family celebrating America’s birthday. My smile for this Fun For Your Friday is this: a special thank you to all the soldiers and veterans out there giving so much to [...]

I have wonderful news, Internets!! I am officially wearing matching socks. See? Because of the knee injury and resulting blood clot, I spent much of the past four months wearing a “compression sock”. This is a knee-high very snug (and uncomfortable!) creation that is not exactly….um….fashionable. Or comfortable. Just last week my doctor approved my [...]