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Here’s a glimpse into the Jost house with a song AJ and I made up for the twins to get some exercise and learn to follow direction. Simon says only lasts for so long!

They had already done it a few times so this isn’t the full song, but it’s the best [...]

Okay, so AJ has been having some “social trouble” at school. I’m just now getting over my shock that first graders already know how to shun another kid at school, but they’re learning it earlier I guess.

So some girls at school have been really confusing the heck out of my little innocent. One day it’s [...]

Another lesson from the kids about obedience, and a little about ADD.

When I was a kid, I noticed that it was important to my Dad that I color inside the lines. I didn’t remember it though until what I call his “second fleet” came along when he married and had kids with another woman after [...]

Long ago in the land of Body there lived a band of foes. At the gates of the city of Tongue stood the source of Body’s woes.

You see, this band of buds was hard, the thing they did was wrong. For when they took their place as guards they only knew the same old song.

The Taste Buds were a raucous band who [...]

A couple of little stories from this week, ways my kids have taught me about my relationship with the Father of all parents.

I can see better things for you

The pancakes were fresh off the griddle and the scent of warm batter was in the air. The girls were scaling the safety gate when I reached [...]

Liv has this thing where she says “uh oh” to just about anything that doesn’t go her way. It started out just when she dropped or spilled something, but now it’s when she comes upon the safety gate or when M is playing with a toy she wants, or even once when the cable TV [...]

Hey, remember that song they used to sing on the bus, Girls go to college to get more knowledge, boys go to jupiter to get more stupider. They still sing it apparently.

AJ told me all about it last night on the way to the grocery store. After I laughed and told her all about how [...]

As we were coming out of the library tonight, AJ asked, Mom, would you like me to carry one of those books for you?

I looked over at her arm full of movies she’d picked out and saw where this might end up going so I said, Oh, that would be great, thank you! and handed [...]

If you’ve ever had a new baby and an older child, you know the stress it puts on the older one who’s not getting the attention anymore. For AJ it has been twofold, literally. It broke my heart the first six months as everywhere we went people went gaga over the babies and completely ignored [...]

Vicky left this comment on Homeducation and I want to address this topic separately, so, a new post.

Hi Natalie, It’s interesting to read your thoughts about this. I don’t have kids myself but I hope to one day and I am a Christian. I can see your point about standards [...]

For years I’ve been going back and forth over home schooling. I went from feeling the weight of biblical obligation to the fear of taking on something so huge with my own education so far behind me, and ultimately we decided to try public school. Of course now, with the twins, this made the decision [...]

My PC is a child, an insolent child. I give it clear direction and it just does what it wants to do. I tell PC it was wrong and it never as memory enough to acknowledge me one way or the other. Instead, PC just sits there, staring at me as though I’m the stupid [...]