Walkin' in High Cotton

We’re back in school again. Which means extra laundry, extra chores, early bedtimes, and packing lunches. Which means more lunchbox notes! This year I’ve got  to make even more of them, since Speedracer’s off in school now too.  I had stockpiled enough for one each day of the first week ready when they started last Monday. [...]

We pretty much skipped breakfast on Sunday to get outside and see what Hurricane Irene had left us with. (Mr. Fix-It was a little stir-crazy and hopped in the truck as soon as it was light out.) By 8 am our chainsaw was running. The kids helped a lot. Most of the branches were just [...]

Hurricane Irene came. Hurricane Irene left. We’re still here. We lost some shingles, some siding, and some chickens, but we didn’t lose power, so we’re thankful. We’ve got a couple leaks to repair, and our garage light fixtures all broke off in the wind, but we’re thankful. We lost some trees but they were mostly in [...]

The Ladybug got a rocket for her birthday last week. A rocket called “The Taser.”  (You didn’t know 7 year old girls wanted rockets for their birthdays, did ya?) She and Mr. Fix-It spent about a week putting it together in the evenings so they could shoot it off this past weekend while Mr. Fix-It’s [...]

It’s been a long first week of school so far. But so far we’re surviving it all pretty well. The first day was a little tough. Speedracer’s had to implement some coping strategies. We’re all just a little (ok, a lot) tired and worn out at the end of the day. We do our chores, [...]

So, you might not have hear (if you were living under a rock on the steppes of Russia or something) that we had an earthquake yesterday down here in Virginia. Yep. An earthquake. It was not a big tractor driving by. It was not a jet flying low manuvers. It was not wind gusts preceeding [...]

Depending on your browser, you may have noticed some warnings around here…some disturbing flashing red boxes…some scary DO NOT ENTER announcements…{sigh} Sorry about that. Apparently there is a plug-in (actually about 25 of them) that is the victim of hacking, and everyone that was using one (or more!) of them is also a victim, and [...]

{SIGH…} I’ve been trying to ignore it, even while realizing that it was consuming every moment of my mental life. The First Day of School. And not just any first day of school–Speedracer’s FIRST first day of school. (Meaning in all likelihood, our last first first day of school.) Thankfully we don’t have to put them on [...]

Some chores around here don’t change, even if we have company or we’re having a par-tay. Like feeding the chickens. Mr. Fix-It and I handle the big bags of chicken food, but the crew is responsible for feeding all the scraps every morning. This past weekend was no exception. We had some watermelon and some [...]

My girl is turning 7 today. And believe me, I was all set with a pity-party-in-a-box, ready to open, to celebrate my misery that my girl is growing up and any day now she’ll be heading off to college and getting married and moving to who-knows-where… But our sermon at Prayer Meeting last night changed [...]