Grease Monkey!
From Glamour Shots to Grease Monkey, Megan does it all with style. Saturday her dad talked her through the process of changing the oil on her little yellow VW-Bug, Miss…
Evening at the Park
While I made dinner one night this week, Dad took a bunch of the kids to a nearby park to wander around and look at the geese. Since I've been…
In which I try new things with limited success
Another episode in my long, painfully slow saga of becoming a decent photographer. In this episode, I set up my new equipment. I recently acquired a set of light boxes, a backdrop stand,…
Wandering through the fog
There's inevitably a certain degree of mental fog that is part and parcel of having a newborn in the house and sleeping in 2 hour stretches. I'm already a bit…
Excuse me while I kiss this guy…
This has been a busy week of running to the hospital over and over in hopes that our Baby Ruben would be released, only to find that no, he's not…
Raising them right…
No wonder Efrain couldn't get to sleep - these were ALL in his bed! The rest of the kids are pulling similar shenanigans, all thanks to four boxes of books Megan…
You know what they say, “At the end of the day…”
"At the end of the day," "when all is said and done," "this is where the rubber meets the road." No matter how many meltdowns and extreme scream-fests there are…
Preparing….
Yesterday, after dropping Efrain at his first day of Pre-K at Ss. Simon and Jude, I made a trek to north Phoenix, an area I have barely even touched in…
Starting School
Oh the anticipation that has filled our home as we prepared for this new adventure - sending our first little one off to Pre-K! As a veteran home educator of…
Firsts
Well, I have a few minutes left before the end of today, so if I'm quick I'll get this in before the pumpkin hour. Ooo, pumpkin... pumpkin spice... pumpkin pie...…