~ 1 ~ I upped the WPM (words per minute) goal for both of my boys on our typing program this week.  Back when we started it, the program suggested a starting goal of 15 WPM for the kids.  Now, they consistently beat the goal.  In fact, this week, Noah did a speed test and came up with 26 WPM. I told him that I definitely needed to increase his goal.  He suggested maybe I should increase it to 16 {Read More}

~ 1 ~ I can’t believe that I haven’t shared a picture of the most exciting thing that happened around here last month… And, with this wonderful event, all three of our children now receive Holy Communion. ~ 2 ~ I was getting pretty misty-eyed on the morning of the First Communion.  I couldn’t decide if it was because Molly is our only girl or because she is our youngest or if it was because I thought about helping her {Read More}

~ 1 ~ If you have a preschooler or a child in that general age range, you might be interested in checking out this week’s eBook bundle from the site Bundle of the Week, since all of this week’s eBooks center around activities for young children.  If this looks like a collection of eBooks that you’d enjoy (with a savings of over 70%), be sure to pick it up before the end of the weekend since the bundle topic will {Read More}

~ 1 ~ Last week, Eric and I decided that we should find out what all this Downton Abbey hoopla was about.  Figuring that we would watch one episode and perhaps get back to it later, we started watching at 11 pm on a Friday night. We were up watching episodes until 3 am. The following night, we again watched four hours of Downton Abbey, and then snuck in a few more hours this week.  We’re almost done with season {Read More}

~ 1 ~ Eric has officially finished a big project that he has been working on for the past five years (plus a couple years when we were still practically kids).  He is now a college graduate! Although he finished school right before we went to Disney World in December, the semester didn’t end until mid December and the graduation information didn’t appear on the transcript until February 1st.  Up until we finally saw it on the transcript, we both {Read More}

~ 1 ~ Do you know what kind of friend is fun to have?  The kind of friend who thinks it’s funny when you send a text message with this picture attached: And then ask them if they can find the apple sauce because you can’t find it. For the record, Eric had put it in a very strange spot, so don’t work too hard trying to find it.  But, luckily, I did find it. ~ 2 ~ Every so {Read More}

~ 1 ~ Mom Failure of the Week: I checked on when Molly’s ballet class started back up multiple times over the break.  Seriously – I’m talking three or four times.  Each time, I thought it said that classes at the ballet school resumed on January 19th.  When she went back to class this week, one of her friends said she was so glad to see she was back. Yep – I got the day wrong.  The school started classes {Read More}

~ 1 ~ I constantly feel like I have no time for all of the online tasks that I do. To top it off, I actually started working for another blogger as a virtual assistant (or, as she deemed my title “online project manager”). But, here’s the funny thing about it. Eric and I sat down to talk about how I could find better working hours earlier this week. We went through all the things I do online and he {Read More}

~ 1 ~ This week, Molly and I stopped by a local ice cream shop on the way home from religious education to surprise Eric and the boys with a treat.  We order all of their treats and then picked our own. Molly couldn’t decide what to get, and so I suggested that maybe she should try a sampler of three mini scoops.  This way, she could get both flavors she was contemplating, as well as one extra.  Her extra {Read More}

~ 1 ~ On Wednesday night, I had just had it with our house.  Well, not so much the house.  The mess. I make my best attempts at being pretty real here on the blog.  I started taking pictures of what the house looked like, and I was actually afraid it would embarrass my family that reads.  So, while I was okay with shaming myself, I didn’t want to make those people feel bad for being related to me. Between {Read More}