Going On's

Baby is getting so big. He is almost 15 weeks now and he smiles all the time. What a sweetie he is!

The big girls had a good time making this Lincoln Log village. Guess you never outgrow Lincoln Logs.

Big sister, B#2, helping B#7 make a huge mess with bubbles.

Fishing and frogs!!!

Gardening, take 2! The chickens got into our garden so we had to replant. Not a very cost effective garden this year, maybe next year.


Sewing and Herbs. And where is that B#3? She always manages to escape the camera.

The Moby

I have a love hate relationship with baby carriers. I see so many moms using them and I think "that's the one", "that one will work for me". With B#7, I bought a Moby wrap in a beautiful chocolate brown(one of my favorite colors). I would get it out week after week and try to figure that thing out while the girls laughed and called me a Jedi from Star wars. With B#8, I bought a typical padded sling type baby carrier with a lovely toile print on one side but boy does that thing hurt my back. Age maybe??? Anyway, a few days ago I was having this same discussion with a good friend who is expecting and I lamented to her my Moby story. She promptly told me that she had a great video she would email to me. I had already sold my beautiful brown Moby on Craigslist but after watching the video she sent to me, I went to borrow a friend's Moby. I love it...I don't know what my problem was last time but this thing is great. The girls wanted to try carrying B#8 in it so here are a couple of pictures of B#4 with him in it. Now I gotta get one of my own before my friend has her baby in a few months:(

Look! No hands

Putting in the garden

We finally got our garden area tilled, thanks to some good friends who loaned us their tiller. We are very new gardeners so we go out every morning hoping to see some new sprouts from the seeds that we planted. Not knowing too much about gardening, I am always worried when everything isn't up and growing as fast as I would like it to be. And I am not sure how gardening is supposed to help save money as we seem to keep having to buy stuff for the garden. Maybe next year?!?!


B#6 trying to keep the sun off her head and neck. Good thing we had this bonnet in the dress-up bucket.

B#1 and 2 working in the corn rows

Doesn't it almost look like B#4 is going to chop off B#2's head?

Little B#7 got to wear one of the girls pretty hats to keep the sun off himself.

Dad worked on getting a fallen tree out of the creek area so the grass could be mowed there. And where is B#3 in all of this? I am not sure. Maybe she was the one with the camera?!?!

Parental Rights

A parent’s right to raise their children as they see fit is a time-honored American tradition, but today it is being threatened. The Supreme Court’s Troxel v. Granville decision in 2000 undermined a 75-year heritage of Constitutionally-protected, fundamental parental rights, which 8 of the 9 justices abandoned. At the same time, a growing body of international law fuels activist judges to legislate foreign standards from the American bench, while treaties such as the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child would subject parental decisions to government oversight and international review.
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (MI-2) has proposed HJR-42, the Parental Rights Amendment, to stop the erosion of parental rights in American courts while simultaneously defending our laws from international invasion. Please, visit parentalrights.org to learn more about the Amendment, and to join their email network by signing the petition to protect parental rights.