Homemaker Chronicles

Y’all know how I feel about firsts, right?  Like, I like them and stuff…
Actually, I think “firsts” are really cool and I have quite a few for you today!  The first First is this…
Caleb’s first attempt at diving into a pool of water.  Don’t worry, it was of ample depth so as to not crack [...]

I thought there were some very intriguing conversations that popped up from my post about holistic milk and I thought we should delve a little deeper perhaps.  You game?
Y’all may not know this about me, but my favorite conversations to have are theological in nature.
Shocked?
It’s not because I know very much about theology, or because [...]

Friends??

Or star-crossed lovers?

Meet Saber…my brothers Doberman. (you might already know Liza Mae, our Blue Heeler)

We had him over for a hot date…ahem…play date.  I think this could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship!  Or possibly some little “Heeler-man” babies?
Let’s hope for the former!
~Angie
Homemaker Chronicles

I realize that I am totally neurotic about certain things and then seem to be the polar opposite when it comes to other certain things.  A dichotomy of sorts.  When I have an issue, it’s a real true-blue issue because I really can’t figure out a solution.
Northerners will bust out laughing when they read what [...]

You have seen that my kids can sing, but did you know they play instruments too?

We are a bit of a musical family- more than two generations back- so they came by it honestly.
My parents met in college, in the band.  Dad played trombone and mom played baritone.
How dorky is that? Sweet though!

While I was [...]

UPDATED—–
12/5/09
I have actually cooled off a little bit since writing the below post.  Evidently I was in a frenzy that night…forgive me?  What I’d really live to convey, if anyone can excuse my prior irrational behavior, is that I truly feel for the Woods family.  I don’t harbor anger, I am not appalled, bitter or [...]

I’ve had many questions about where we were last weekend and some details about our campout.  Here is all the information.
We drove up to Mt. View, AR through the beautiful hills and about 2 hrs. from our house.  We stayed at the Sylamore Creek campground just outside of Blanchard Springs Caverns.  It was actually about [...]

My best friend does this thing on her blog, it’s called “Not me Monday”, but I have never participated.
Not really.
She’s not my best friend.
She’s not even my friend.
I love her blog, but she doesn’t know who in the world I am.  I just like to pretend that we are friends.  Her kids [...]

It seems like everytime we go out to eat as a family we turn lots of heads.  I am not sure if they are ”ahhh, what a cute family” looks or if they are like, “what tha heck are they thinking” looks.  Todd loves it when people watch us get out of the car because he thinks it [...]

UPDATED POST:
I would love to say that Titan ended up sharing his icecream, but he infact did not.  At the very end of the clip you see me practically running through the kitchen.  Well, that’s because I am frantically searching for Salem’s passy so that he could lay down for a nap.  He had already [...]

How’s this for the cutest thing you’ve ever seen??

I walked into the kid’s room to find the girls putting “wips” on eachother.  Yes, that’s what Adia calls lipstick.
“Wips”.
After painting half of Regan’s face pink she turned to me and said, “Mom, I can do your wips too!”.
Oh boy!!!
Although it looked like I’d been in a [...]

Joys of Spring
Nothing is safe now
Led by natural instinct
Wriggle hop squirm squeak
by Angie
That’s right…I brought back the Haiku today!  In honor of Springtime and all things slimy and slithering.  Around here it’s daily that I am asked for a jar to put some poor living creature in.  I have just quit throwing away anything plastic [...]

I’m so sorry for the confusion, corruption, and infection here on my blog as of late.  I hope that noone was adversely affected during all the drama.  (Sidenote:  If you are reading this now, you are not at risk for infection)
If you are having strange things happen on your computer (ie popups, being redirected from [...]

When we moved to Texas we ended up in a little bity town south of Ft. Worth but we have spent most of our “going out and about” time in a bigger town that is just north of us- Burleson.  As we were driving to Burleson one afternoon Titan piped in matter-of-factly, “Mom…Dad…when I grow up, I’m [...]

I would love to take this time to let you all know what things our family has found to be the best “family bonding products”.  They just encourage us to spend time together.
Things like the trampoline we bought three years ago at Christmas.  Other than breaking your neck, it can be used for so many blissful activities.  There is [...]

You might have noticed the pictures from yesterday having lots of boxes and a dolly.  You might have thought to yourself that we were spring cleaning.
We’ll we were cleaning and it is spring, but we weren’t spring cleaning!
And now, with no further ado, I have an announcement to make…
WE’RE MOVING!!!
Almost exactly a year after we [...]

Remember our camping trip last weekend?  Before I say anything, you just have to watch this…

Have you ever seen that movie Enchanted?  You know the part where she sings out the window to call all of her animal friends?  “Ahh Eh  Ahh Eh  Ahh” …
We literaly opened a few boxes of poptarts and the squirrels started [...]