At A Hen's Pace

B16, who has been snarling a lot lately about his school workload, was in a good mood the other morning. He was dressed in silky gym short...

It's true. Chicklet6 (now 7) got a real, permanent tattoo this summer. Actually, it was her ten-year-old brother who gave it to her! He...

I hear that this is a staged video--that really a blow like that couldn't make an airbag go off. But isn't it great, anyway? (Go on,...

Part One So we're both back on campus at the beginning of our junior year. Papa Rooster has decided No More Girls for him. I am determin...

Mary at Owlhaven , inspired by my friend Megan at Fried Okra , is telling the story of how she and her husband met and fell in love--in inst...

This is for my fellow homeschoolers, just to give us all a little encouragement on the first day of school! For us, anyway. (The rest of ...

It has come to my attention that in a previous post, when I threw out a dollar figure of $600,000 for a house that we looked at, it could ha...

In the scene where Jesus asks the schoolchildren to help him tell the parable of the good Samaritan, Bantam8 and his buddy are the "roc...

You know you've checked out too many books from the library when... Your car beeps at you the whole way home because it thinks there is ...

*TMI=Too Much Information Bantams 12 & 8 and I were studying tornadoes and tornado safety in Science. I told them about the terrible on...

...I am reminded of a section from one of my all-time favorite books of humor, Raising Demons by Shirley Jackson (yes, THE Shirley Jackson ...

Now that we're planning to move away from the Land of Lincoln, it's easy to get all nostalgic. I've lived in the Chicago suburb...

So when are we moving? Well, first we have to sell our house--and settle on the right house in Kenosha. We haven't really advertised our...

A quick laugh-out-loud funny one! It sure cracked me up this morning anyway.

Semicolon's Saturday Review of Books is up; I linked my review of Gilead . *** In yesterday's quick Thank You!! post, I used the ph...

Okay, family and friends who think WE drive a large vehicle... Check out this family's 1997 stretch Suburban limo ! They got it after i...

This is just too much fun. I think I'll make my kids memorize a few of these, and then make a new rule that only insults of the Shakes...

With Halloween nearing, my sitemeter reveals that I've been averaging around one hit per day by folks Googling "crazy makeup."...

Okay, I have totally swiped this from Island Sparrow , but she says it's making the Internet rounds, so I figure it's fair game. Sin...