Category Archive: Lady of the House

March 2010

• 05
  • Commonplace Entry: Mystery in the Ordinary
• 02
  • Baby Knox

February 2010

• 26
  • Knox Bombadil Winckler
• 25
  • Still Yet
• 24
  • Review: Fellowship of the Ring, by J.R.R. Tolkien
  • Review: Acedia & Me, by Kathleen Norris
  • Review: Cocktail Time, by P.G. Wodehouse
  • Review: Biffen’s Millions, by P.G. Wodehouse
  • Review: For Kirk and Covenant (Leaders in Action Series), by Douglas Wilson
  • Review: The Burning Land, by Bernard Cornwell
  • Review: Certain Women, by Madeleine L’Engle
  • 2010 Book Reviews
• 23
  • Yes, Still
• 21
  • Still Waiting
• 19
  • Waiting
• 17
  • Library Organization: Children’s Books
  • Still Here, Folks
• 15
  • Bombadil
• 14
  • Knox
• 08
  • Good Idea
• 05
  • Well-Cooked

January 2010

• 30
  • Playing with Picasa
• 14
  • “I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!”
• 12
  • Not even tiny

December 2009

• 31
  • Resolving the Resolutions

November 2009

• 15
  • Establishing Household Habits: Duty & Self-Discipline
  • Establishing Household Habits: Established by Repetition
• 06
  • Family FYI

October 2009

• 23
  • Retreating
• 19
  • Start of Autumn Term

September 2009

• 25
  • Oh no!
• 22
  • Symmetry is Out (at least for now)
  • Symmetry is Out (at least for now)
• 05
  • Name Statistics

August 2009

• 31
  • My Other Blog….
• 18
  • Amusing Ourselves to Death, Working Ourselves to Death
• 05
  • Seeds of Our History

July 2009

• 21
  • Eight Years

June 2009

• 11
  • bewildering
• 09
  • House for Sale!

May 2009

• 31
  • Reason #42 To Keep Your House Clean & Organized
• 25
  • A Plan for Summer Caffeine Distribution
• 21
  • Birthdays approach!
• 15
  • Hungry Farmer Boy
• 14
  • Farmer Boy
• 13
  • Tweaks
• 02
  • My Granola Recipe

April 2009

• 24
  • Honest Jaegs
• 15
  • National Poetry Month, Day 15: And, that’s enough
• 12
  • National Poetry Month, Day 12: Mystery of Mercy
• 09
  • Ack!
  • National Poetry Month, Day 9: Oh, yes! That’s a charming one!
• 08
  • National Poetry Month, Day 8: Little Boy Heart Alive
• 05
  • National Poetry Month, Day 5: Lady of Shallot
• 04
  • National Poetry Month, Day 4: If Ever Two Were One
• 03
  • Good Free Audio Downloads
  • National Poetry Month, Day 3: My Last Duchess
• 02
  • National Poetry Month, Day 2: Batter My Heart
• 01
  • Quotes I’ve Been Pondering

March 2009

• 28
  • Preschoolers & Peace: Marvelous Mondays
• 26
  • Journeying
• 18
  • Who can resist a book sale?
• 11
  • Resolutions Check-Up

February 2009

• 24
  • It’s Alarming, But True

January 2009

• 07
  • Commensing Book Club Notes
• 01
  • 2009 Resolutions

December 2008

• 31
  • Books Read in 2008
  • Jealous Jaeger
• 30
  • Our Christmas Letter
• 22
  • Mystie’s Status
• 13
  • Ilse

November 2008

• 21
  • Cleaning Paid Off
• 17
  • A Sure Vocation
  • A Sure Vocation
• 13
  • Vocation: A Sure Calling

October 2008

• 30
  • he amazes me every day
• 23
  • Pumpkin Patch
• 22
  • Pattern
• 15
  • Poor Professor Higgins
• 10
  • perplexing question

September 2008

• 30
  • Unlikely Sources of Conviction
• 29
  • Third Time the Charm?
  • Third Time the Charm?
• 25
  • Ten Weeks to Go
  • Ten Weeks to Go
• 23
  • Surviving Matt’s Absence
• 17
  • Always straining to attain
• 15
  • Look
  • Order and discipline and housekeeping
• 04
  • Listening
• 03
  • Hons
  • Who needs a pet?
• 02
  • A Chick Flick I’d Like to See
  • For the Record
  • For the Record

August 2008

• 29
  • Planning 2008-2009: Shaping Persons
• 28
  • Boy Dress-Up
• 27
  • Planning 2008-2009: The Big Picture
• 26
  • Kerplink, Kerplank, Kerplunk
• 25
  • Phone Conversations
  • Kindergarten Promises
• 22
  • Childhood BFF Memories
  • Single Motherhood Stinks
  • Single Motherhood Stinks
• 21
  • Seven Months
  • Seven Months
• 15
  • The Decider
• 10
  • Amusing Lad
• 07
  • birthday
• 06
  • A Man in Uniform
• 04
  • The Swearing-In
  • FYI
  • Survival Mode Begins

July 2008

• 30
  • Ilse is Born
• 29
  • girlfriend trio
• 24
  • Hanno
• 23
  • JaegerMeister
• 22
  • Salsa ‘Bheann
• 21
  • On the Occasion of Our Seventh Anniversary
• 07
  • Learning from Friends
• 05
  • VBAC, anyone?
• 04
  • Our Country’s Declaration
• 02
  • “Spit, Ilse”
• 01
  • not funny
  • Crunchiness

June 2008

• 30
  • Vacation 2008: Rockaway Beach, Oregon
  • Jinxed
  • Heart’s Delight
• 27
  • Change
• 26
  • Arranged Friendships
  • Pathetic Revelation
• 20
  • Percolate
• 03
  • And now, for a vacation!
• 02
  • Photo Update
• 01
  • Birthdays Party

May 2008

• 28
  • Unbelievable

April 2008

• 23
  • Family Resemblance
• 12
  • Three Months
• 03
  • Easter Celebrations
  • Easter Gents & Little Lady

March 2008

• 28
  • Random thoughts
• 25
  • So how is that public welfare, anyway?
• 14
  • New to my blog roll
• 12
  • How a Girl Grows
  • Ilse Silsa
• 07
  • Little Bits
• 06
  • NPR: Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills
  • “The Kids”
  • Pro-Infanticide President?
• 03
  • Alone?

February 2008

• 25
  • Six Week Honeymoon is Over
• 23
  • Auntie Mystie
  • Wincklers
• 22
  • Six Weeks Old
• 21
  • Whoo!
• 17
  • Transition Week
  • Three
• 16
  • Books
• 15
  • The Gown
• 12
  • Covenant Child
  • paperback swap
• 11
  • One-Month Stat Check
• 09
  • Appropriate Milestone
  • Ilse ‘Bheann is One Month Old
• 07
  • Excited about excrement
  • All Written Down

January 2008

• 31
  • Blog lines
  • Pandora & Pandemonium
• 29
  • Randomnimity
• 25
  • Names
  • Names
• 24
  • Sleep
  • Sleep
• 23
  • Mommy & Baby
  • Mommy & Baby
• 22
  • oddities
• 16
  • One Week Ago Today
• 14
  • My Newborns
• 13
  • Life with Ilse
  • Life with Ilse
• 10
  • Done!
  • Done!
• 08
  • Sound familiar?
  • Status #6
• 07
  • Status #5
• 06
  • Status #4
  • Ready for a Homebirth
  • Status #3
  • Status #2
• 05
  • Status
• 03
  • Ornery Third Child
• 02
  • Update
  • Painting
  • Laundry
• 01
  • Brothers

December 2007

• 31
  • Thirty-Nine Weeks
  • Thirty-Nine Weeks
• 29
  • Christmas Celebrations
• 21
  • Fun Mom, Mean Mom, Tired Mom
  • Fun Mom, Mean Mom, Tired Mom
  • Ultrasound Results
  • Ultrasound Results
• 20
  • Checklists
  • Nancy on Sibling Friendships
• 19
  • First Home Visit
  • First Home Visit
• 01
  • Amazon Kindle

November 2007

• 29
  • encouragement
• 27
  • Midwife Check
  • Midwife Check
• 16
  • Birthday
• 13
  • Plans getting accomplished….
• 09
  • Cindy on Young Families
  • My Big Guys
• 08
  • Advent
• 07
  • Weird thing
  • Weird thing
  • Middle Name Options
  • Middle Name Options
• 06
  • Baby News
  • Baby News
  • Question
• 05
  • Home again
• 02
  • A little update

October 2007

• 24
  • FYI
• 22
  • Cute Kids
• 13
  • Names
• 12
  • Three Hours of Potty Training
  • Three Hours of Potty Training
• 10
  • Update
  • Not bound by logic

September 2007

• 28
  • another funny
  • a funny
• 27
  • Somersaults
• 21
  • Dominion Family is Back!
• 20
  • In need of a smile.
• 13
  • Wearing a shawl
• 10
  • Principles and Methods
• 03
  • Legacy of Pregnancy

August 2007

• 31
  • My Two-Year-Old
  • My Four-Year-Old
• 29
  • Hilarious
• 20
  • Just to bug Matt :)
• 15
  • Thinking the week out…
• 13
  • pregnancy leaves a bad taste in my mouth
• 09
  • At the park
  • At the park
• 08
  • God’s Promise
• 03
  • Ava

July 2007

• 31
  • freezer
• 27
  • in prayer
• 26
  • Self-Education
• 25
  • Milestone
• 24
  • Astounded
• 19
  • Keep your books
  • Keep your books
  • Preschool Printables
• 17
  • clarification
• 16
  • ob decisions
• 13
  • Ready for Routine
  • Preschool Routines
• 05
  • Little Baby

June 2007

• 27
  • Raising an Army
• 23
  • First Trimester: Again.
• 20
  • Domestic Scenes
• 14
  • Courtship: Reality Check
• 13
  • Announcement
  • Announcement
• 11
  • Jeager Talker
• 06
  • Moving Casualties
• 05
  • An Update

May 2007

• 21
  • Little Mirrors
• 18
  • Bliss
• 17
  • The Tiger Box
• 16
  • Easter Gents 2007
• 14
  • First-class service
  • Normal
• 12
  • Corn Allergy? What Corn Allergy?
• 11
  • Public Areas: No Public Allowed
  • Lovely and completed commercial tile floor
  • My Kitchen
• 10
  • Stalled
• 03
  • Our New Old House

April 2007

• 25
  • Whew!
• 23
  • Calling Cards
  • Loving books
• 19
  • Yeah, uh-huh
  • In case you hadn’t heard
• 18
  • Crazy talk
• 17
  • gmail
• 13
  • Jaegermeister
• 12
  • Hansinator
• 10
  • Respectability

March 2007

• 30
  • Someday I want to
  • This afternoon at the Wincklers’
• 29
  • Fun with Nana
• 16
  • Confessions
• 09
  • Richlanders
• 02
  • Happy Birthday!

February 2007

• 27
  • Linky days
• 26
  • “because I function with half my brain tied behind my back as a matter of routine”
• 23
  • House update
  • Spring in the air
• 20
  • My Only Comfort
• 15
  • Mormon adjustment
• 14
  • Guest Writer: On Valentine’s Day
• 09
  • Email Woe
• 08
  • Houses, houses

January 2007

• 30
  • Reading Goal
• 23
  • 34 Years of Legal Abortion
  • 34 Years of Legal Abortion
• 22
  • keys
• 15
  • Vitamin C Magic
• 08
  • Resolutions of a kind
• 05
  • Library Wonders
  • Dickens
• 02
  • good things
• 01
  • Christmas Letter 2006
  • Weddings, Friends, and January

December 2006

• 26
  • Holiday Facts
• 12
  • I don’t want to teach math
• 07
  • Confection Production
  • Quick Update

November 2006

• 23
  • Grateful
  • Grateful
• 21
  • Paradise Regained
• 20
  • epidural musings
• 17
  • In Memory
• 10
  • week one done
  • coffee is art
• 06
  • computer-free week

October 2006

• 27
  • an odd sight
  • playgroup party
• 24
  • costume party
• 23
  • cute boys all around
  • old wives’ predictors
• 20
  • ob first
• 16
  • water, water
  • simplify
• 12
  • some sort of assessment
• 10
  • OB education
• 09
  • I’m an aunt!
  • prenatal care decisions
• 06
  • small house
  • anticipation
• 05
  • Jealous Jaeger
• 04
  • Amen
• 03
  • Lots of Little Ones - part 1
  • fun at the park
  • fun at the park
• 02
  • First Trimester, take 3, so far
  • heavyweights

September 2006

• 28
  • 30 in 60
• 26
  • Proverbs 29:15
  • card collection
• 25
  • Yikes!
• 20
  • toddler bug
• 15
  • joys
• 14
  • Inventory
• 08
  • “Let’s Have More Teen Pregnancy!”
• 01
  • Online Radio

August 2006

• 28
  • Real Bed
• 18
  • Jaeger Speaks
  • Dr. Mom the Bandage Lady
• 17
  • Producing by Reducing
• 14
  • Dogs
• 08
  • Next week…
  • Fourteen Months

July 2006

• 31
  • He’s Walking!
• 28
  • Sharing a Bedroom
• 27
  • Cheerful, Perceptive, Neat Jaeger
• 25
  • Introverted boys
• 21
  • Small house, new HVAC system, and a heat wave
  • Week of the bug bites
• 19
  • New Positions
  • It could be worse
  • Raising Boys
• 14
  • Hard work

June 2006

• 30
  • week of the house plan
• 23
  • Errands & Outings
• 14
  • Etiquette
• 13
  • The Duty of Parents to Children
• 07
  • Jaeger-Eater, bullet-list version
• 06
  • Computer Time
• 01
  • No Sheet-Reserves Necessary!
  • The Greatest Matt
  • 18 minute intervals

May 2006

• 30
  • 12 minute intervals
• 26
  • Breakthrough!
• 22
  • MotherStyles
• 16
  • The Dread Vacuum, part the first
• 09
  • Writing List
• 05
  • Online Resources

April 2006

• 28
  • I don’t like fun things
• 27
  • Like a Tree
  • Sola Scriptura
• 26
  • Aromatherapy
• 21
  • Mother-Approved Song
  • Fancy Boys
• 20
  • Battle plans
  • A model teacher
• 19
  • Easter Sunday Gents
• 11
  • Subject-ive Education
• 10
  • The boys
• 07
  • Yes, very good friends
• 06
  • Children as tomatoes
• 03
  • Rainy Spring Break

March 2006

• 29
  • Croup d’etat
• 28
  • Jae for Blueberries!
• 24
  • Poker Night
• 22
  • Mulled Plans
• 17
  • Not the bug kind
  • Not the bug kind
  • homeschoolers on fashion
  • Spring — and Summer — is almost palpable
• 10
  • Both Boys
  • Mean Mama
  • Whirlwind Social Weekend

February 2006

• 16
  • Needle and Thread
  • Changes in Taste
• 07
  • Yay, Elly!
  • Hans’ blue house
  • Hans’ blue house

January 2006

• 29
  • My creative students
• 24
  • Not much to read here…go elsewhere!
• 06
  • Rental
  • Sound of Music
• 03
  • Sleep!

December 2005

• 05
  • My Fat Baby
  • A milestone for Jaeger

October 2005

• 17
  • Gratitude
• 14
  • Crazy-Making, Crazy-Solving

September 2005

• 23
  • Autumn
• 16
  • Teaching again
  • American Heritage Girls
  • meet my mom
• 14
  • maybe a little sleep
• 07
  • sleep…or not
  • sleep…or not
• 02
  • stats for the boys

August 2005

• 29
  • growing, eating, and sleeping
• 18
  • My WalMart Dependence
• 15
  • summer boys
  • Big Boy
  • Big Boy
  • promises

July 2005

• 22
  • monthly fridge clean-out
• 21
  • On the occassion of our fourth anniversary
• 20
  • Happy Boys
  • playgroup in the sun
• 15
  • selling common sense
• 13
  • sigh
• 07
  • amusing sights
• 06
  • helpful household tip #216

June 2005

• 30
  • Two Things
  • A Panoramic View
• 16
  • bliss
• 08
  • Quiet Boys
• 01
  • Jaeger’s Story
  • Jaeger’s Story

May 2005

• 26
  • A War Within
  • A War Within
• 18
  • Caught in a Nap
• 13
  • preparing for labor
• 12
  • solutions for swelling
• 11
  • sore throat relief

April 2005

• 19
  • Moral Dilemma
• 18
  • Getting Things Done?
• 14
  • Shoes!
• 05
  • Imagination & Fear
• 01
  • Again! Again!

March 2005

• 30
  • Easter Antics