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I am Not as Strong as I appear. I enjoy weakness from time to time. We are a homeschooling, special needs family of 7. My 4th son has a Congenital Heart defect, and my oldest has ADHD. We like to find old things and make them new, so we bought a house that was in desperate need of repair, then we doubled the sized of it. This project is well over 9 years long, with still plenty to do, and has pushed my fear of heights over the limit too many times. The best part is I am still alive to talk about it! Some of my passions are my children, and making Jewelry. When life gets stressful (often times stress induced by children!) opening up my bins of beads to create something beautiful that will soon bring joy to someone else is all I need. That and chocolate. I am just hanging on by the seat of my pants. Stick around & let's get to know each other.
I have been organizing lots of things in my life lately. It is my way of getting ready for Owain’s surgery. I have been working on finishing up projects that I started, organizing, unpacking boxes that have now been packed away for close to 3 years, going through photos, both older film developed ones...
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You know it figures that we get the furnace dried out and lit and it was so nice overnight that we didn’t even need it last night. Today was beautiful, the windows were open and it filled my house with the damp muddy smell of spring. It think it is going to be a...
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I forgot to mention one very important thing about our Destroyed Bathroom last night. Can you guess from the screen shot, lol. In case you missed it last night, see the previous post to see the first part of this segment.
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My 4 boys and 1 baby girl are constantly destroying all sorts of things around The Nut House. This is the first video of a series called “Things My Kids Destroy”. I may or may not keep the title of this series. I haven’t decided yet. I was also thinking about calling it @#&%...
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Tuesday is here again and I am planning my projects for the week. It is a little known fact that Monday is actually the third and final day of the weekend. Many believe that Monday is the start of the new week, but they are wrong. Monday is a just a test run for...
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You may have remembered a few days ago when I mentioned that I was done showing off my Homeschool Room Make over photos, but I lied. I actually have a few more photos that I can’t believe I missed. If you have not seen all of my other post about our Homeschool Room Makeover,...
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If you have not seen all of my other post about our Homeschool Room Makeover, you can find them all here Repairing the Walls in the Homeschool Classroom Homeschool Room Makeover after the Walls are Painted Homeschool Room Makeover Organizing the Closet and Curriculums Homeschool Room Makeover Chalkboard Paint and the Finished Room While...
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Last year I just taught my oldest Nut and it wasn’t that big of a deal to have just 1 child’s curriculums to organize. I had a small space that I created in my office, but it still ended up all over the house. This year I took 3 shelf units from our bedroom...
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It took us 5 years to finally finish caulking around the windows, fill in the nail holes and paint the trim and the baseboards. The Classroom was Wing Nut’s bedroom for 7 years, E Nut’s bedroom for over 5 years and Little Nut Nut’s room for 2 years. Have you ever noticed that sometimes...
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Until the middle of June, our three oldest Nuts shared a bedroom. It was a tight fit, with a set of bunk beds and another bed, bookshelf dressers and all the toys of the three Nuts packed in. After they moved out we started repairing the damage caused by 3 boys and the way...
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I can’t think of many things more disgusting than slugs. Some might not consider the Shenandoah Valley to be “The South” but this Damn Yankee sure does! There are very few days when slugs are not sliming around my yard. Winter, spring, summer and fall, slugs can be found. I hate slugs. Hate is...
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My motto is “There is nothing wrong with a little crazy in your day” and I completely believe it. I think if I didn’t allow just a bit of crazy into my daily routine I would go completely bonkers. The Nut House consists of my myself, my husband William, my 4 boys ages 7,...
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In Owain's 4 short years, he has had 3 Open Heart Surgeries, and 1 surgery to place Pacemaker wires on both his upper and lower heart. He is looking at a lifetime of surgeries to replace the Pacemaker batteries. Hopefully that is all he will need, but we live our lives Praying for the Best while being Prepared for the Worst.
