• The Mommies Reviews

    If the Creek Don’t Rise: A Real Sunday in a Real House Before a Big Family Launch

    I don’t know about your home but Sundays in our home don’t look like the picture-perfect reels or the “slow living” posts. They look like real life — loud, quiet, messy, funny, frustrating, and full of people who come and go like we’re running a 24‑hour diner. David is at work. Gerald is camped out on the couch waiting to see if my sister is coming after church. The boys — and depending on the week, “boys” could mean Bradley and Charlie, or William, Bradley, Tim, and Charlie, or just Tim — sleep in and wander home sometime today like stray cats who know where the food is. B may…

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  • Video Games

    This Is How We Learn: Video Games, Movies, Board Games, ADHD, Chaos, and the Family That Built a Series Together

    I wanted to let you know something about my family and Sundays in our home because they don’t look like the picture-perfect reels or the “slow living” posts you see online. They look like real life — loud, quiet, messy, funny, frustrating, and full of people who come and go like we’re running a 24‑hour diner. Charlie and I do Church at home through a Bible Study we do with Mikayla. We do family dinner, not lunch. And as much as I want everyone to sit together, more times than not… we don’t. Because life doesn’t always line up neatly — especially in a homeschool family, a blended family, a…

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