It’s 2am and pitch dark outside. Physically I’m sick and mentally I’m preoccupied with various types of thoughts. I’ve been tossing and turning in my bed for the last few hours…again. I decide that, rather than force myself to sleep which could take a few more hours, it’s better to ignore the urge and I elect to [...]
Archive for January, 2008
Time Warp Doom
Posted in Taschek Bloopers, tagged DH, insomnia, loopy, psych fodder on January 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Good Things Come To Those Who…Give Up
Posted in Blessing Box, Teachable Moments, tagged Daniel, DS2, poop, potty on January 26, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray! <wild cheering in the background>
My almost 3 1/2 year old son has FINALLY decided that it is TIME to go poopy on the potty! I’ve waited three days to go by before writing this post…hoping that it wasn’t some sort of fluke. For some inexplicable reason (because I had given up complete [...]
The Evil Mother-In-Law
Posted in Blessing Box, On Motherhood, Teachable Moments, tagged MIL, mother-in-law on January 20, 2008 | 6 Comments »
I am sure many people can relate to the title of this post. Unfortunately, the title was a shameless and underhanded trick on my part to hook you into reading this post which is, in fact, about my Mother-In-Law (MIL) except the dear woman is anything BUT evil. In fact, in the eight years that I [...]
My Turn Under The Proverbial Microscope
Posted in Homeschooling, Teachable Moments, tagged father-in-law, homeschool, microscope on January 16, 2008 | 5 Comments »
“So…”, my 75-year-old retired engineer father-in-law begins, “what’s RJ’s report card look like???”. This was a question that took me by surprise in the middle of a homeschool day last week. How do I answer this so that I don’t have to take an hour away from our already constrained homeschool schedule yet do it succinctly [...]
The Art of Poop Management
Posted in Down on the Farm, tagged donkeys, farm, horses, poop, poop management, potty training on January 5, 2008 | 13 Comments »
Warning: This post is not for weak stomachs or the faint of heart.
I made a vow to myself that when I started blogging I would only blog with a topic that’s laying on my heart. Know what’s laying on my heart these days? Poop. That’s right. Poop. It’s an ugly but necessary fact of life. Every living creature does [...]




























