We have two cars. One is a Jeep with no roof. Not very useful when you have 5 children and not very pleasant in the winter, so it is parked at the bottom of the driveway. The other car is a wagon with no heat. Stinky steam/smoke pours into the car when it is running, […]

Winter 

Knoxville is surrounded by mountains that protect it from most weather harshness, but I can’t go a whole winter without snow, so we drove to the mountains today. We went tubing and then made it to the pass into the higher elevations of the Smokies just as they opened it. The drive through the mountains, […]

Michael Silence and his family stopped by Ben & Jerry’s today to make a few denim squares for a Four Freedoms Quilt. If you haven’t met Michael yet, you don’t know that, unlike other reporters I have met, he is a soft spoken and genteel gentleman. I was thrilled to be able to chat with […]

This week has been exhausting. Thank goodness we don’t cause chaos everywhere we go. I am looking forward to making a noisy mess at Ben & Jerry’s tomorrow.

Why do all the children's shows look like they were created by marketing departments?

Do you know a better way to store headbands? 

I am planning to be at Ben & Jerry’s next to Fresh Market this Saturday from about 3 until 4 and I’ll have some plain denim squares with me (hint hint) if anyone wants to drop by and decorate one or a dozen.

Amy has been staying dry in the daytime for months now, so I decided it was time for the potty chair to disappear. I was sick to death of cleaning it out a thousand times a day and Evan is too mobile to risk having the little seat down at his level. Yesterday Amy realized […]

I am almost finished with my Noah’s John Adams project and pretty close on his Bunker Hill project. He needs more help with math and then I have to do Sarah has a project, poster and report for math. I need a break from it all but there isn’t time.