and baby makes 6!

A package arrived via UPS this morning. Can you guess what is inside?
No, it isn’t the disgustingly expensive dress for Princess Mia of Quite Alot. I am still tapping my foot about that one. By the time it gets here, Mia might be old enough to make her own.
Here is [...]

Sunday the sun came out. The REAL sun. The one that makes everything all bright and toasty warm. Including the amphibians.
It was not a day to be spent indoors, so the 2 oldest boys and I took off for the creek to go herp’ing (looking for amphibians and reptiles). The “I” [...]

Yum! This sounds so wonderfully yummy..Trinidadian Rum Punch. It is the real deal, not Hawaiin Punch with a splash of rum. Thanks for a hint of the tropics Karen!
I am totally making it. Will try and use some Jarabe in place of making the sugar water. I know, [...]

…..live…..in my kitchen…..twirling girlies in their pretty nighties.

I watched a friends 3yo little girl the other night, and she and Mia had a blast together. After baths, I put one of Mia’s bigger nightgowns on her, and she and Mia twirled and danced in the kitchen like “Derella” (Cinderella). [...]

On the one hand, a girl can never have enough clothes.
On the other, it is expensive and indulgent.

She would have it on for, like, 3 minutes and the tulle would be ripped.
But it is so adorable…..and her second birthday is a month away. Photographic opportunities to the left and right.
What’s an [...]

marks that it has been 4 years since my first miscarriage. The miscarriage that threw me unwillingly into the land of loss. The beginning of 18 months of sorrow, pain and spirtitual growth. The journey that culminated in the joy of Mia’s birth.
I would miscarry 4 times in 9 months…..and again 2 [...]

…I am making this. Scrool down to Feb 3rd, “Boiled bread”.
I hope mine turns out as pretty.
And if you haven’t, dive in and get hooked on Logcabinlog. Addicting. She and Travelogue have me obsessively clicking throughout the day, waiting for their next post. Go, read, and be an armchair traveler…..or maybe [...]

I define that as the time between when the kids come home from school and 6pm. It is a bear.
If I were to tell you one time that I can feel the stress of having 4 kids, it would be the afternoon. I am not sure why it is like this, and I [...]

That is when I will write a post about the “Witching Hour”. You know, that time between when the kids get home from school and dinner. It is an explosion of arms and legs everywhere, wide open screaming mouth. Crying. Whining……and that is just me.
House of [...]

My children were born into bondage. They swear that noone else at school has to do the things they do. It sucks to be them, you know?
Todays large family topic is chores. I am so not organized, so I don’t have a chore chart or anything, but from a very early age, [...]

We are in the process of devouring a Halipaska’s chocolate, heart shaped cake….with gobs of yummy flowers and such. It is HEAVEN, and I am not that fond of chocolate….might just have to change my mind about that! Mmmmmm
I am surrounded by love today. My husband, my 3 beautiful boys and my [...]

There is a certain degree of gross that is encountered when there are 4 males living under one roof. I am not talking about the sweaty boy smell, or that their room smells of dirty socks. I am talking about THE grossness factor. The measure by which one rates disgusting acts or [...]

I love it that my husband has a 1/2 day off every other Friday. I anticipate it and get all giddy as noon approaches on those days. I see his truck drive up and I tell the kids “Daddy’s home!” and Quinn and Mia race outside to great him.
Yesterday, Cody and [...]

Sleep is todays Wednesday large families topic!
All of my friends here in town whose kids go to bed at a certain time, and sleep straight through the night without a wimper, all think we are crazy at the Jody2ms house.
We do have a routine….and the school age kids have a bedtime. This [...]

If you were a wingless fruitfly, that somehow managed to escape the jaws of death, and climbed out of the newts aquarium, then up the wall (because you can’t fly, being wingless and all) here are some of the things you would have heard this week at or house. I live with a [...]

This is me, I think in 1996, when Cory was around 18 mo. It is the only picture I have of myself surfing. It was such a fun day and the waves were so perfect…about waist high, or a tad bit higher. I was getting some great bottom turns and having a [...]

When I see this picture Shelley, I want to cry and laugh at the same time. I can still remember what her voice sounded like, you know. Isn’t this a great picture (where were we going?):

I want to grab these girls and tell them “Your lives are going to be so amazing, [...]

See! Lots and lots of blond curly hair!

I love this picture. He just looks so young!!

Is it Cory, or Bill?

Gentleness, sobriety
are rare in this society
An inner candle’s
brighter than the sun.
Sting
I Love you Bill!

Wow. Last Thursday was the Chicken Noodle Soup Supper and annual Talent Show at the Catholic School. In hindsight, I can now tell this story without getting a headache and feel the need to throw up……..no, the talent show wasn’t that bad. But the happenings made me glad that God invented wine. [...]

A Lecture screamed to me tearfully by 5yo Quinn this afternoon after a fun filled, exhausting time at the park:
“Why do you make me do EVERYTHING around here. I mean, you make me shut the door on my side of the car when I get out. ”

” You make me close the [...]

Last night was a better night. This morning was rough, with albuterol and Tylenol needed. I think we hit the peak of the RSV, though, because this afternoon it seems she has made it ’round the bend.

This weeks topic on larger family living at Chris’s and Carmen’s blogs is “Organization”. I must steal the line “Oranized Chaos” from Jodi. That just about describes how organized things are at Chez Jody2ms. We are incredible clean people, and everything is neatly tucked away. But, “organized” belongs to someone else. [...]

Or the flu. That is the verdict. She is still wheezing and retracting, so the doc put her on Albuterol elixir. A jittery 22 month old…That should be fun. But, thank God for albuterol. Now she can breath better.
Hopefully it will run its course and [...]

Have you ever seen someone lose their mind? Well, if not, and you are curious, come on over to our house.
Mia is sick. Like really sick. Like wheezing, retracting, breathing treatments and fever.
I am a kook when it comes to my daughter being sick. Add to that that [...]