I am rarely intimidated. I am one of those people who welcomes a good challenge. Throw some adversity my way and I rise to meet it. Then I was given this very simple task of writing a bio for the organization I am working for and I turn into this fumbling, have no clue what ...
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ~Pauline R. Kezer I've been a busy girl. In fact I am starting to think I function better when my plate is full but I ...
Today's post is written by Sara Padrusch who is author of two blogs Shiny Red Houses and a blog dedicated to secular homeschooling, The Secular Schoolhouse. Here at the Secular Schoolhouse we're upfront about sex. We've always called every body part by its correct name. No wee-wees or pee-pees or vague references to ...
First Rant On Sunday I had to call 911. I was on the phone talking to a friend and inside of the foyer in my house I could hear loud hollering and banging. I went outside to talk, and it got louder and louder. There was cussing and threatening. So I walked down the side walk ...
Out of sight, out of mind right. Here is the rundown of the past week I have had. The good, the bad, and the ugly. The week started off well. For one, I started working for a state wide organization that promotes being outdoors and being healthy. No, I'm not joking. This is a great way ...
This is what I found on my camera tonight. Let me introduce you to unedited pictures by Kara, 3. Maybe she will be a fantastic photographer like Jessica Claire! "How does this thing work? O, press these buttons."
This was some kind of week. I was definitely ready for it to end. All this cold had my kids in a frenzy because they were tired of being cooped up inside. They were liked caged wild animals who had gotten into the stimulants! But there are things I am thankful for this week. That Mr. ...
Today I left the house and my baby had a swastika on her forehead. Yeah. Evidently when I wasn't looking she and her sister got a hold of a pen (not uncommon) and decided to draw on her face. It looks like they were trying to put an X right between her eyes but then ...
Before 9 o'clock this morning I had managed to piss off football fans all across the state, educators that teach in our public school system, small children for making them do their morning chores, and a cat who wanted to claw my furniture. This makes me totally awesome and full of WIN just so you ...
While everyone is saying Hooray! after Auburn clinched the National Championship, giving the state of Alabama the championship two years in a row the thoughts that cross my mind are this: The people of this state value football over education and it is glaringly apparent. We are low ranking in education, have high maternal/fetal death ...
Welcome to my blog! I'm Kim, a thirty-something wife and homeschooling mother of five. I'm a foul mouthed, Jesus loving liberal whose hobbies involve cooking and sex with the infamous Mr. K. I live in the Bible Belt on the Gulf Coast of Alabama and I can assure you life here is anything but boring.