Happy (belated) Fun For Your Friday, Heroes! Yesterday was the last day of insanity for the summer, in which we cleaned up after Community Vacation Bible School (over 240 participants and nearly 150 volunteers) and then crashed after a little cleaning around the ol’ homestead. Phew. The next three weeks are devoted to home projects [...]

(Editor’s note: I’m SO sorry to our usual contributors for not getting FFYF published these past few weeks. Life has been….crazy. Getting better now! The older boys and a friend went swimming in our pool the other day. By “pool” I mean one of those Intex soft-sided pools that are above ground and somewhat small. [...]

Good Friday, Heroes! This week I had to give a presentation on social media to some local business people, so much of my time early on was spent trying to get the Prezi just right. The class was later in the afternoon, and by about lunchtime I was getting pretty nervous. I’ve taught for years, [...]

Having a little fun today…one of the great rewards of parenting is being ever so slightly irritating. Heh. Or maybe that’s just my twisted sense of humor. 1. When they go into a bathroom shout, “Hit the water!!!” 2. Let their older siblings stay home while they have to accompany you to the store 3. [...]

Good Friday, Heroes! Today we are participating in our very first egg drop contest. Very exciting. The challenge is to create a container that can hold an egg and protect it from cracking in a fall. The Captain’s first idea involved tin foil and plastic wrap. 3 or 4 broken eggs later I told him, [...]

When I was at BlissDom this January I met Amy Wilson, the author of When Did I Get Like This? The Screamer, the Worrier, the Dinosaur-Chicken-Nugget Buyer & Other Mothers I Swore I’d Never Be. Here’s Amy herself talking about the book: Amy was kind enough to give me a copy of the book to [...]