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“Not Me” – Bravely confessing some of my faults, failings and quirks by denying them. ♦ I do not have a unmatched sock pile bigger than a healthy two year old. While I was working at sorting the unmatched socks, Bella did not bypass the piles and piles of unsorted socks and head directly for…
Congratulations to Kelly who won a date night at home from Macaroni Grill and Wanchai Ferry. I recently posted about how to spend time alone with your husband in a houseful of children and one of my suggestions was to put the kids to bed early and enjoy a date night at home. Well last…
We regularly do once-a-month freezer cooking, but we do it in a way all our own. We bulk freezer cook with 4 other families once every two months. We pend several hours on Saturday morning preparing the food and each family takes home 40-50 meals for their freezer. Freezer cooking is one of the things…
“Not Me” – Bravely confessing some of my (or my family’s) faults, failings and quirks by denying them. Since our family lives in Knoxville and we moved here from Kingsport, one may think that the Scattergories task of thinking of a U.S. city that starts with ‘K‘ should be a piece of cake. Of course…
Congratulations to Amy @ A Call to Adventure and Melissa @ These are the Moments for winning the copies of Large Family Logistics. Yes, you read that right. Raising Olives is giving away not one, but TWO copies of Large Family Logistics. Earlier this week I gushed (and a lot of you gushed) about how…
Welcome to this weeks edition of 4 Moms, 35 Kids: How Moms of Many Manage. This week we’re sharing some of our favorite books for preschoolers. Although we read lots of books to our preschoolers, I limited this post to mostly picture books I’ve intentionally tried to keep this the short, short list. If you…
Yesterday I mentioned that, thanks to Large Family Logistics, we switched our regular chore time from the morning to the afternoon and that it had made a very positive change in our home. A couple of readers asked why that was so. If you remember that I’m a complete morning person, you may be even…
I’ve been meaning to post about Large Family Logistics for a couple of weeks now, but it’s simply too good to wait until I have the time to write a “real” post about it. LFL is chock full of practical advice about managing the large family home. OH MY, it has changed our home for…
Our family is driving along in “The Plum” (our black outside, red interior 12 passenger van). As we stop at a red light, Colby spots a fast food establishment. Colby: “Daddy, what are those yellow, curvy lines over that Burger King? Daddy: “That’s a McDonalds.” Colby: “No, that Burger King right there, with the yellow…
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