With five kids they really are.
Gimme a kiss, my sweet boy.
And I wouldn’t have it any other way.
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When I was a little girl we had big breakfasts on the weekends. My daddy made homemade biscuits, gravy, bacon, sausage, and fried eggs. When I “got grown” I asked him to teach me how to make gravy with no lumps, bacon that stayed flat, and eggs that didn’t have that hard edge on them. He did. And, though now I usually make those frozen biscuits because they’re so much easier, I do still have the talent to make “scratch” biscuits. And now, I’m passing those secrets onto my own children.
This morning we made them with a little extra love.
Yeah, kinda hard for me too, and it’s my own front yard.
That would be our bird house in the front yard (yes, it’s woppy-jawed, just like everything else in our life) in a snow storm we had the other day. We got snow. That may not be noteworthy for you, particularly in the last few weeks, but it is for us. We were too south for the first round of snow. And too north for the second round. Rain, rain, and more rain. But unexpectedly after church the rain turned to snow (and not ice). It just kept falling. Huge beautiful flakes. It covered everything, stayed briefly to wow us, and then slipped quietly away. I may be sick of winter, but the snow was a welcome visitor. Once upon a time it might’ve been. But nowadays this girl as a Mama to five needs somethin’ a little tougher than diamonds. Or at least grittier. I present to you the 6-in-1.  One of my true loves. I’m not kidding. Yes, the paint tool. No, I don’t know why it used to be perfect as a 5-in1 and then they felt the need to add one more tool. I don’t even know what the one extra tool is now. Who cares. It’s perfect. If you have things like these around your house:  Duct tape, what is that?!, Christmas tag. I absolutely DID just show you those. And, once again, if you don’t see things like this around your house, I’m not sure we’re made for each other and we should just part ways now. Oh, I kid. We had a 5-in-1 that was well-worn and somehow it went missing. How the gunk in my house has built up. But we’re back, baby! This thing scrapes gunk from floors, walls, counter tops, tables, and those little crevises that not much can reach (see that little pointy part?). And if you’re careful to keep it perfectly flat while scraping it doesn’t scratch your surfaces. The glitter glue that didn’t get cleaned up right away? Gone! Dried cereal that’s stuck? Voila! Science experiments gone horribly wrong? That’s right. Mamas run now and get you one of these. Who knows, your sweet hubby might just have one in their tool box that you can steal borrow. It’s been awhile since we’ve done a Children’s Book Tuesday and once again it’s not exactly a children’s book per se. But it’s an art curriculum book we’re using in our homeschool that I’m absolutely in love with – Oxford First Book of Art  If you order this book through the Amazon link above in the text - I get a kickback! ;) A friend gave this book to us and I just love it! We’ve done one lesson each day. It has a very simple layout, short easy reads. All four kids usually gather around and look at the pictures over my shoulder while I read to them. I love that the lessons have the kids really look at the art. I like that it includes art of different mediums.  This is one of the kids' favorite lessons so far. And I love that there is a suggested activity with each lesson. A simple activity – I need simple right now on most days, not everyday can be an oil painting Toulouse-Lautrec kind of extravanganza, now can it?  On the left is TheMiddlest's, top right is TheOldest's, and bottom right is ThePrincess's. This activity was a “one line drawing” similar to the one they studied in the lesson. Didn’t they do great?! Now join us in this blog hop! Link up and we’ll come visit – we always love to see what children’s books we might’ve missed along the way! (and if you’ve been doing Children’s Book Tuesday without me – ahem, Kathi! – please feel free to either link up a new one or one of your old posts – I’m SO not picky!)
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