School-age Kids, Silmarils, and Everything In-Between

Me? Tongue-in-cheek? Never.
A little bit manic and a whole lotta sublime.
Me? Tongue-in-cheek? Never.
Hello! By the time you read this, we will have been in our new (temporary) home in Colorado Springs for about five days. Five days to process a new normal. Five days to
I figure I owe y'all a photo dump of what we've been doing in homeschool lately. Elayne is greatly enjoying math (Saxon), science, and writing (D'Nealian), and improving every day in her reading
Some people like to name their home schools. I would like to name mine, "My-Kind-Of Homeschool." Because so far, teaching kindergarten, at least (I'm SURE it gets a lot harder and
Lately, I've been thinking about my 30th birthday. It's never too early to start thinking about your 30th birthday (#snark), and I'm only 2 years away from mine. I recently read a magazine
I am righteously angry. I'll tell you why in a minute. But first, some epic awesome: One of my favorite moments in all of literature is from The Return of the King, when
Srsly tho. You'd think after two babies I'd have hips...
My heart can't take any more serious posts right now. In the spirit of laughter being good medicine, let me regale you with a tale of one of my most embarassing moments. Those
My stomach is doing somersaults inside me, telling me that I just climbed off a loop-the-loop that ended in a 100-foot drop to boot. Am I facing a drastic life-change, a watershed, something
Hyperbole: exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally. There's a problem with this. Most of the Krycho Kouple's outward-facing persona is conducted online, and online, people are about as literal