Is any birthday complete without the pure sugar high of a Mamele cake and wrapping paper ending up everywhere? Meanwhile, when nobody was looking, S snuck back to polish off everyone’s pieces of cake. Aren’t you so confident in our babysitting skills, M & G?!!

Užgavėnės – everyone got into the spirit of scaring winter away in order to welcome spring to the land! This spring in particular has felt incredibly hard and long (mentally – not weather wise) and gosh I’m ready for hot days, warm evenings, and less wind. We live in a valley and the wind is…

Cousin squad exploring new places together.

When video games and computer games are pretty nonexistent at home, this is what happen the second we walk into a library with the kids.

The perfect cousin combo. S comes up with the adventures and shenanigans (usually related to hunting for dinosaur fossils), E provides the enthusiastic backup support, and N keeps everyone in line (mostly), while trying to keep any real damage from happening (somewhat successfully).

M’s famous “Look” she gives Mom every time Mom a) tries turning the conversation from pleasant banalities to politics or b) says something that is factually unfounded – especially in the area of American civics or social studies.

When the kids were younger, I LOVED reading aloud. Then we hit the four-kid stage where it became a huge chore, primarily because the kids fought endlessly over who sat next to (or on top of. Or over.) me. Not just a “one and done” fight, but a “after every picture book” fight. I started…

She’s the Little Mama of our family: the one always desperate to be older than her actual age (five) and beyond excited the few times she gets to be in charge of anything. She’s usually pretty even keeled (except for when big brothers tease her one time too many) and incredibly responsible. She’s the kid…

Our ladies are laying again! Thank goodness, seeing as egg prices just keep shooting up and up and up. We might finally start re-cooping (haha) some of our fowl-nancial investment!

Resist.