Jaimie Krycho - Not a Hint of Hyperbole

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

Me? Tongue-in-cheek? Never.

The Adjustment

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 reconcile our bodies to the two-hour time change. Five days to mourn the loss of an ending

Homeschool

Homeschool Happenings

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 skills. Our schedule is chugging along nicely, though that will change when we drive out of Wake

Homeschool

A Science Experiment!

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 I do not diminish that in the least!), has been pretty easy. It took a few days

tattoos

Indelible Marks

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 blurb in which a 90-year-old woman got a long-desired tattoo of a flower on her birthday, and

marriage

Wives, Fight for Your Husbands - Or, a Response to the Edges Collective Article

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 Éowyn rides forth to fight the Witch King of Angmar. He has mortally wounded her uncle, and

humor

How I Feel About...Pencil Skirts.

Srsly tho. You'd think after two babies I'd have hips...

humor

"Wanna Get Away?" - Or, The Time I Spilled Water on Brandon Sanderson

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 of you who know me know that I am a writer and, therefore, a reader. One of

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That Moment I Dropped Them Off

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 that will alter me for the rest of time? No. I dropped my daughters off at day

SALUTATIONS, EARTHLING

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 as my linguistically-budding toddler. For example, I say: "The undertone on this batch of coffee is