Guess what youngest son is reading now?  His geometry textbook for next year.  It's Life of Fred , so it is a combination of a geometr...

Cat posters on my daughter's door. My 10 dollar yard sale chair. Nerf darts, in storage.  These things are all over the h...

Curious Boy's Book of Adventure This is the latest book my youngest son is reading.  It's about building treehouses, learning to ...

Max and I had a pretty good night's sleep.  Okay, I really don't know if he did, since he sleeps on the bedroom floor but he only we...

Tonight when it was bedtime ( a minute ago), I went outside to tell my youngest who was listening to an audio book out on the front porch, ...

One advantage of the fact that we've all become audio book addicted in this house is that we don't have to worry about mispronounc...

My son wanted to do another experiment from the Big Book of Boy Stuff yesterday.  He wanted to make homemade root beer.  So while I was at...

My youngest is still going through the Big Book of Boy Stuff.  One of the experiments says that you can rehydrate raisins in water and the...

We did this earlier.  It's called Grape Lightening. Take a seedless grape.  Cut it in half, but not all the way.  Leave a skin atta...

Big Book of  Boy Stuff  My oldest son enjoyed this book and checked it out of the library at least 5 times a few years ago.  I was browsi...

5 things that were good about today. 1.  I woke up in a better mood today.  No blahs.  This is critical to how the day turns out.  Sometime...

A couple of weeks I added a small thing to the schedule for the kids.  It says " 15 minutes outside with Mom".  That's a new o...

We've had some busy and funny times the last couple of days.  We've had things to do pretty much every day this week and also, in be...

I guess it is.  It started out better.  I didn't drop anything in the toilet and that is always a plus.  I am at my mom's house wo...