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Hi and welcome to our blog! I’m sure you’re here because you thought our email was nifty and you wanted to see what we are about. Thank you! Over time, we haven’t kept up with updating our site as we should have. To enhance privacy, we’ve set our posts to be protected from general browsing. Should you wish to reach out to us, please use the contact page or connect with us on Facebook. Hi and welcome to our blog! I’m sure you’re here because you thought our email was nifty and you wanted to see what we are about. Thank you for your curiosity! Over time, we haven’t kept up with updating our site as we should have. To enhance privacy, we’ve set our posts to be protected from general browsing. Should you wish to reach out to us, please use the contact page or connect with us some other way. Thank you! Today, I felt summer passing quickly. Maybe it was when I made our 439th strawberry/mango/banana smoothie. Or when the kids starting playing “Galapagos Marine Iguana” again. Today, I knew these easy, slow days would not be ours forever. Summer has been awesome so far. In June, we went to the beach, rode kayaks to Monkey Island, ate ice cream, and swam until the moon was up. In July, we’re back to Homeschool Lite in the mornings with lots of Legos and Boxcar children in the afternoons. Today, it dawned of me that I should ask the kids what they want to do this summer. During afternoon snack, I asked them to go around the table and tell me the things they most want to do this summer. Round 1 Schäfer: Go camping. Round 2 Schäfer: swing in my hammock Round 3 Schäfer: go hiking All of this is totally doable. The kids were delighted when I agreed that we could spend an entire afternoon chewing gum and dropping it in a trash can. I suppose we can also bake cupcakes and apply chap-stick as desired. It’s summer. Anything is possible… I stopped blogging in April 2012. I’ve basically had writers block for 2 years and 3 months. Yes, there was an occasional post there and there, but it was forced. There was no natural flow. I asked Hubs to take down the blog. I told him I was done. He told me I wasn’t. I don’t know what happened 2 years and three months ago. I can’t point my finger on any specific moment that I knocked the writing right out of me. I suppose it was a combination of things. • Hubs job changed so we moved to a new area that was very different from where we previously lived. • I was suddenly pregnant with our 4th. Surprise! • I was suppose to start homeschooling our first until I realized that I don’t like doing the same thing everyday and therefore homeschooling is not as fun as it looks on the internet. • Hubs traveled alot. • Six people in a 90 square meter apartment can, at times, feel tight. Somewhere between making sure we were clothed and fed each day, I lost my ability to write. I couldn’t form complete thoughts. I was content. I was even happy. Yet, the words to describe this season of life would not come. Lately, there has been a change in me. Something small. Something I can’t explain. Today, I want to write again. 
Previous years: 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Schäfer 7 Sianna 4 Selah 3 Senna 1 da!da!da! 1. What is something Mommy always says to you? Schäfer: I love you. Sianna: Clean up the books. Selah: Horse. 2. What makes Mommy happy? Schäfer: If I say, “Yes Mommy!” and “Yes Papa!” Sianna: Reading books. [Continue reading Mother’s Day 2014 Interview] 
Happy Mother’s Day Schäfer 7, Sianna 4, Selah 3, Senna 1 I believe my greatest achievement today was getting a bow to stay in Senna’s hair. Just saying. Our day started out crazy. Well, our entire weekend was crazy because we were hosting visiting American guests. If we weren’t directly with them, [Continue reading Mother’s Day 2014] |
