Plans? What plans?

So I thought we would spend this week getting onto a routine…yeah, pretty funny.  Why do I make these plans?
Turns out the real plan for the day was for me to tote around a sick baby.   A feverish, throwing-up baby.   On the bright side, Teresa has remained irrepressibly cheerful through it all.  Just a little [...]

Summer Class Begins

Today was J’s first day of teaching a summer grad class on the Synoptic Gospels. As is typical of summer classes, it will be short (three weeks) but intense.
This would make a logical point for us to begin some homeschooling, and I had originally intended to do that. Instead I have discovered that [...]

Laundry Routine

The seasonal shift has led to a new laundry routine around here.  It goes roughly as follows:
7:00-7:30 Kids collect and bring to the laundry room all the dirty laundry.
7:30-9:30 I wash (or to be precise:  my washing machine washes) one or two loads of laundry.
9:30 or so  We hang laundry outside.
1:30-2:30  Somewhere in there I [...]

On the Feast of the Annunciation

I managed to drag myself out of bed at 5:45 this morning, something which we used to do, but have had a hard time doing ever since daylight savings time started (how is this saving daylight?  It’s actually wasting my day!).  Not getting up on time really wrecks the flow of the routine we’d established, [...]