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“Not Me” – Bravely confessing some of my faults, failings and quirks by denying them. This year I was not disappointed that2 year old Nick merely nodded sagely as the big kids showed him the turkey and told him we were going to eat it for dinner. I did not secretly miss Colby’s loud proclamation…
Welcome to Not Me Monday, where I have the opportunity to tell you all the things that did NOT happen over the past week. Since I have a great laundry system, I’m always caught up on laundry and Mark does not have a extra stash of underwear in his closet so that when he needs…
Welcome to Not Me! Monday! Where I have an opportunity to admit what I did NOT do this week. When I ran out of size one diapers for Isabella I was able to use a few size two diapers, although they were a little big and made her look like she had a big, saggy,…
With the arrival of baby Bella in addition to our other responsibilities, Mark and I are NOT struggling to keep up with everything.Nope, not us, everything is under control. I was NOT having to rush to get a shower in time to make a lunch date with hubby (’cause you know that I have my…
Our whole family is NOT completely goo-goo over our sweet new baby girl. We are a sensible, productive family so tiny ears, crossed eyes and soft skin are NOT enough to make us all want to just sit around holding and admiring a tiny baby. Isabella was NOT over a week old before she ever…
I did not forget about a doctor’s appointment last week and end up skipping it completely. (I’m not completely blaming that on baby brain, Oi!) It did not take us 45 minutes to figure out the new van seating arrangements for when the baby is born. The conversation did not go something like this. So…
I did not inadvertently spill some water on the keyboard of our family’s laptop causing the ‘t’ and the ‘y’ keys to short out and thus making it impossible to sign into the computer. (Do you think that if I say that often enough that it really will not have happened and that my ‘t’…
Not Me – Being brutally honest and living to tell about it. When we found out that Suzanne (the nearly-finished-with-college, college student who lives with us) was going to be home for dinner rather than out late studying. We did NOT quickly take a few french fries off of everyone’s plates in order to save…
We did not have to fish a wadded up napkin out of the milk jug because one of the children was tossing it around at the table. When the little girls asked if Nicholas could be in the bathroom while they were playing in the bathtub I told them as long as he didn’t get…
…take my sweet baby from looking like thisto looking like this… After his hair cut, I certainly did not fail to recognize him and think that someone had let one of the neighbor children into our home. I did not shed any tears at how different his hair cut made him look. No, not me!…
Hi, I'm Kimberly. I'm a homeschooling mom of 11 and here on Raising Olives I share about what I've learned; tips, ideas and some of the ups and downs of managing a home and raising children for the glory of God.
