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Cook Once, Eat Twice: Our Sunday Steak Dinner + Apartment‑Friendly Grill Review + $5 Monday Lunch
I know I’ve said this is a thousand times but Sundays in our home doesn’t look like the picture-perfect reels or the “slow living” posts. They look like real life — boys wandering in and out, David working, Gerald waiting on my sister, dogs pacing, and me upstairs trying to work while life happens around me. But one thing we DO try to hold onto is Sunday dinner — not lunch, because we do Church at home over the computer with Mikalya, and not everyone is awake, home, or in the same mood at the same time. Dinner is our anchor. Dinner is where we reset. Dinner is where we…
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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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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…
Living a simple lifestyle from the front porch
