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…
Read moreThis 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…
Read moreNo 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…
Read more“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…
Read moreYesterday, 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…
Read moreOh 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…
Read moreWell, 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……
Read moreA long time ago, in a Blogiverse far, far away (Xanga!), I met Linda Burklin: a home-schooling, curriculum-designing, blogging, fiction-and-non-fiction-writing, ren-faire-attending, autoharp-playing, knitter-of-beautiful-things and mother-of-many who also, I discovered over time, designed and…
Read moreIt’s true, we had a super summer birthday blowout earlier in the month, but you still have to celebrate each individual and very special person on their own day, right?…
Read moreSo, we have a lot of birthdays in the summer months – between our house and the East Valley Heidmanns, I count… lessee, from May through August we have: Efrain…
Read moreOur Independence Day was low key this year. We so often have been up at the ranch over the holiday weekend, but this year we were home – I don’t…
Read moreFor many months, a sweet little girl with breathless anticipation of her 4th birthday, has been asking me, several times a day, to recite the month and day (and every…
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