Managing Closely Spaced Issues

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Sibling Squabbles

As with any household with siblings, we were often faced with squabbles, yelling, and harsh tone of voice between siblings. For the longest time I chalked it up to: siblings. Siblings will squabble. They’re going to be mean to one another once in a while. That didn’t mean I had to [...]

Homeschooling year-round

Do any of you homeschool year round? This year is the first year we’re actually doing it. I figure, children learn year-round anyway, and once they get into the real world they’ll have to work year round anyway, why get them stuck in the habit of always having summers off? Plus the [...]

Getting kids to sleep on their own

My kids used to be rocked to sleep every night, and for every nap. When I was pregnant with our third, I found that my oldest was simply too big to be rocked comfortably (and it hurt!), and my almost two year old was also too heavy to rock comfortably with a big belly. [...]

Baby Wearing

“Babywearing” is the ‘art’ of wearing your baby on your body. This is done through a baby carrier of some sort. My personal favorites are wraps, ring slings and mei tais. A ring sling is quite simply a long rectangle piece of fabric that is folded together at one end and threaded through [...]

Getting the kids to sleep longer at night

This was information I had on one of my websites a while back. So I’ll respost it here, because it reminded me of what worked for the other two so I can begin implementing it with the next child who does the same thing!
Getting our kids to sleep longer
Typically, my kids would wake up about [...]

We’re Moving!

We have a once in a lifetime opportunity to buy our first house, and we’re taking it.
We’ll be moving an hour north to Melvindale, MI. The house, while about half the square footage of where we live now, actually has more useable space and a full basement, and a larger backyard. I’m excited.
We’ll [...]

The Prairie Muffin Manifesto

A few years ago when I had become saved I felt an intense desire to live for the Lord, and could not fulfill my thirst for knowledge on the role of a Christian wife, mother and woman. I stumbled across this and had to print it out. I agree with, subscribe to, believe, [...]

Going Places

I prefer to shop at places that have big shopping carts (two seaters, like Sams Club) or a cart with additional seating in some form (such as the bench seats attached to the cart at meijers, or the double seated attachment at Walmart, or the trucks at Krogers). The youngest of the crew is [...]

Tips for cooking with kids

It seems the second I step foot into the kitchen, to cook or not, the kids come running in asking “whatcha making, mommy?” as they pull out the step ladder and a kitchen chair to watch.
I love this inquisitive nature about young children. My biggest helpers are my two oldest children, currently [...]

The sickies

Well my youngest daughter has come down with some sort of a bug. She’s vomiting and has a fever on and off since Friday. She’s keeping some things down, but throwing up others… And she’s miserable. And super clingy. I have been lucky to get two 15 minute breaks yesterday when [...]

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