Creative Play FTW
So this week began the first week after all school work was handed in for the year. With it came new screen rules! Yayyyy!! (and there was much rejoicing!) The…
Some May Birthdays
Had our May celebration for Efrain (9) and Geneva (22) on Sunday - and something new we haven't done before. Big Efrain brought, along with Efrain's cousins Nathan and Lamar,…
Practice Makes …. Better?
A week or so ago I found a good deal on a Canon EOS Rebel T6 for the kids, and since then I've been doing some research in order to…
Mother’s Day 2020
Mother's Day has many colors and emotions in the foster and adoptive world. Each one since we began this journey has been different, often painful and strained beneath a veneer…
A Quiet Place
My sweet little Ellie. Sometimes things are just too much! This last week, school was a real challenge for her. Meltdowns were happening. It was not good. She ran away…
Boys Weekend
This was the weekend Dad took the four youngest boys up to the ranch in Tom-Tom (the new truck). It turned out to be, as you might expect, a very…
Water Fight!
The best way to socially distance is to have a water fight, right? I don't know. I figure the flying water mitigates germs, viruses, etc. Anyway, big brother Mark came…
Breakfast in Color
After experiencing a colossal blunder by the Walmart Pick-up where they loaded my groceries into someone else's car and then sent me home with nada but the bill (which I…
Out with the Old, In with the New
Of all times to have our air conditioner go out, during the pandemic would not have been the ideal choice, with the uncertainties of our current economy. However, it's been…
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