Posts and Pences

I like to get this links post up on the weekend, but it just didn’t happen this time!  I was BUSHED at the end of the week and tried to rest as much as possible on Saturday.  Then Sunday was full, and here were are on Monday already.  I did discover a few good reads this past week or so, and I’ve come up with a system for “saving” them to share.  I will likely tweak this in the future, but for now I save them to my “reading list” in the Safari app on my iPod touch (where I pretty much read everything.)  Then when I’m ready to post I open up each link to remember what it was and whether I want to share it and then email it to myself.  Then from my computer I open the emails and copy and paste them here.  Yeah, I’m thinking there’s got to be a more streamlined way of doing that.  :)

This Will Forever Change The Way You Look At "Selfies" | Unlooker.com‏

Guy travels the world and shoots one second of footage in each location.

Five Kids Is A Lot Of Kids » On Honoring Our Inconvenient Passions: A Parenting and Imperfection Post by Mary Beth Danielson‏
“Hah. I’m the best alright. Best pushover in three counties. I have no problem saying no to these kids when they ask me for new clothes, toys, and gizmos. But when they ask me to help do nutty and inconvenient things that seem connected to their very spirits, well, I figure this is why we signed up to be parents.”

School ditches rules and loses bullies - National News | TVNZ‏
”Mudslides, skateboarding, bullrush and tree climbing kept the children so occupied the school no longer needed a timeout area or as many teachers on patrol.”

Homeschool Mom Interviews: IrishMum | Pioneer Woman
”Then I remember that my goal is not all of that, my end game is to raise good men, men to be proud of. The college they may go to, the job they do, the money they earn won’t be who they are. The way they feel about themselves and the way they treat others will be who they are.”

Beauty will save the world Katie Fox‏
”Music is a living organism. Unlike a painting or a novel, which is set down on canvas or paper for the viewer to come and experience over and over, the making of music happens once, and then it is over, and afterward it lives only in our memories. We can record it for posterity, but the experience of the music as a living thing will never happen in the exact same way again.”

Posts and Pences

Our deck looking so pretty on the frosty Friday morning:

A few favorite reads from this week – enjoy!

22 Things I Learned in my First 10 Years of Parenting

Gender Neutral Parenting: 5 Ways To Avoid Implicit Sexism

Stop the Mommy Wars: Empowering Photo Series

A Sky High Bunk for Three (Not so much an interesting read as it is one way to stack three kids on a wall!)

Posts and Pences

So at least one blogger that I like to read does a post on the weekends with links to stories and articles she’s enjoyed over the past week.  I thought I might like to do the same, if only to have them in one place.  Some of these I’ve found through Facebook, others from blogs I read.  There are only three this week since I’m not in the habit yet of remembering to copy the address of posts I’ve enjoyed.  :)

• Give childhood back to children: if we want our offspring to have happy, productive and moral lives, we must allow more time for play, not less - Comment - Voices - The Independent‏

• How to Name a Baby | Wait But Why‏

• Top 10 Books for Crunchy Parents - Mama Natural - Mama Natural

And hopefully I’ve managed to put the right hyperlink with each post.  Ahem. 

I think post needs some sweet baby and kiddo pictures instead of just words.  So here we go!

Michael was suuuuuper sleepy after eating one evening.

My sweet five year old:

She’s in that fake smile phase; normally I tell her not to smile.  :)

A resident where Matt works matt the babies these adorable rainbow onesies.  I love them!  I’m even planning to cut and hem the bottom to make them into t-shirts once they’re too short for the bruisers.  (Actually I’m planning to outsource that, if you must know.)  They’re so precious! (Michael left; Thomas right)

The favorite!!

I love how they’re so independently handsome.  That’s probably the wrong phrase, but what I mean is they are each so stinkin’ handsome but they don’t look the same.

Michael got a hand free in his swaddle to chew on his fingers.

The day after James wears his footie PJs at night, he often keeps them on if we’re not going anywhere.  I love how he’s put his boots on right over them.

We decided to have him try out Natalie’s bike yesterday, footies and all.

He didn’t exactly give it the ol’ college try, but it is the right size for him.

As soon as we get a new bigger bike for Joanna, we’re going to put the training wheels back on her green bike and pass it along to Natalie.  I just need to figure out what size I need for Miss J.  And then to find it in a prettyish gender neutralish kind of color.  :)

We spent so much time outside yesterday – it was simply gorgeous!  It looks like rain at the end of the week, so I’m thinking we may go easy on school at the beginning of the week and enjoy the backyard, then finish up when we can’t go out with all the mud and wet.  That’s a little backward from how we usually do it, opting to lighten up at the end of the week when we’re all a little tired.  But I’m remembering last summer when it was so nasty all the time, and we really need to be outside now while it’s gorgeous.

Anyway, here’s Momma and her babes.  Thomas is a drool-machine lately!

I love this one, except that Thomas is looking away.  He’s still handsome though!

We’ve also grilled dinner out the last couple of nights and right now I’m smelling pork and potatoes from the backyard.  YUM!