My lovely daughter was in town to see us. It was a great visit!

Scott right before the Homecoming dance this year

Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms out there

I’ve been gone too long! Coming back strong with new changes to the blog including a forum. Check back soon!

A few pics of Scott preparing to go to the Homecoming Dance at his high school. He is a freshman and this was his first high school dance. He had a great time!

I recently had a miscarriage. I didn’t even know I was pregnant! well, my period mid-August was a couple days late, then I got it and it was super heavy. I didn’t think anything of it as I was only 2 days late. I hadn’t missed any prior periods though my July period was light. [...]

Since my older son is starting high school in the fall I wanted to keep his word skills up during this summer vacation. There are a lot fo good websites out there, I found Vocaboly, it’s a vocabulary software. We’re using the free trial and so far so good. It has more than 12,000 words [...]

The boys just relaxing thanks for visiting trulakids.com!

After-school pre-dinner hanging out Thanks for visiting trulakids.com!

My sons dug trenches in the garden, laid in compost, and cleaned up the yard. They are such a big help! This pic and more also featured Family Earthprint: familyearthprint.com S-bop dug all the trenches, T-bop laid in all the compost. My big boys!

T-bop made corn sticks to take to school, it was an extra credit assignment for social studies class.

T-bop in his chill spot, I just had to get a pic

The way people are nit-picking her money use is just…wow OctoMom blew some of her hard-earned handout money on one tube of clear lip-gloss from Nordstrom, which ran the food stamp user a cool $14.50 plus tax. In comparison, a 48-pack of pampers usually runs around $16.99 that’s from here ok so now folks are [...]

Upfront this is a very graphic video of starving children but it does end well. I urge you to watch and think in your heart what you can do.

check this out from GlobalComment: Much of the media coverage regarding this event surrounds the debate as to whether or not it was medically ethical to implant eight embryos in a woman of her age, who already had six children. Though Ms. Suleman was offered the opportunity to terminate a number of the pregnancies, when [...]

I don’t think she is crazy, or a wack job, nuts, mentally ill, whatever you want to call it. I think she is a little dazed and confused and distraught and is just barely holding it in due to the fact she recently had a bunch of babies who are away from her, still in [...]

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T-bop decided to put on his costume from Halloween 2008: Here are some pics from Halloween. My mother-in-law helped get him ready:

PICS: Brian and the Boy Bops hanging out. T-bop says: STOP taking pics of me today.

PICS: S-bop spent the day shoveling snow, here he is taking a break to say hi to Skittles, who watched him from various windows while he shoved the driveway, the backyard turn-around, front and back steps, and sidewalks. He is such a good and helpful son!

PIC: T-bop putting the trash can away. usually this is S-bop’s job, but he was busy carrying the laundry into the house.

I’m doing a year & half of post-bacc-pre-grad too, since I’m going into a program that has naught to do with my current degree. This semester only have 2 actual classes I have to go to; I tested out the rest at a different school and they’re accepting the results as transfer credit. I’ve never [...]

check out Mamaphonic, a site for creative mamas. It’s for everything, writing, photography, film making, etc, but most of the regular posters are writers, quite a few of us published. One of the regular topics is finding the space/time to create. http://mamaphonic.com

My sons awed by icecles.

I do strive continually for improvement in my mothering and housework because I don’t want to make my kids’ lives stressful. I grew up with a mom who cared so little for housecleaning, she didn’t mind if roaches crawled over her children at night. I mean just beyond grimy, so I don’t want my kids [...]

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