Cardamom's Pod

A favorite activity of ours is to open our home to other families for a meal and fellowship.  During one such recent event, we did not explain to this family before they came over that they could help us with the back pond.  We never just blend another family into our daily routine, assigning them [...]

One morning at breakfast, we ended up having an extra pear at the table.  I did not hold up my hand for my daughter to toss the pear to me – from across our 9.5 foot long dining table.  The pear did not fall short and land oh-so-perfectly in one of the other children’s cups [...]

While wearing my cell phone and a walkie-talkie, I do not flip open my phone when my children call me on the radio.  I definitely do not try talking and wait for an answer before realizing what’s going on.  This has never happened more than once.
While at the dinner table, I am not known for [...]

It was not my child who hung empty cicada exoskeletons all over his shirt – for fun.  While I was calming some other crisis with another one of my 9 children, it was not my child who decided to begin yelling in a very convincing panicked voice, “Mom! Mom! They’ve GOT me!”

Wait just a minute [...]

My husband does not draw cartoons for our children.

Even if he did, he would not complain about having to go to work.

My youngest daughter did not try to rearrange my kitchen by creating a “wall” with 7 kitchen drawers.

Life in the country is boring – we do not have the most amazing cloud formations to [...]

Welcome to Not Me! Monday! This blog carnival was created by MckMama.
You can head over to her blog to read what she
and everyone else have not been doing this week.
When my husband texts me from work, and I’m in the middle of talking/teaching/training, I do not flip open my cell phone and put it [...]

Welcome to a special edition of Not Me Monday!  Remember, everything preceded with the word not in italics – actually happened.  That’s right! This week, join MckMama as we say, “Not my child!” and share the hilarious things that there is no way our precious children were caught doing!
There is no way my sweet girls [...]

Welcome to Not Me Monday!  Here are a few things that have not happened this past week:
While trying to get 3 trays of crispy nuts from the dehydrator at once, I did not spill 2/3 of the nuts on the floor.  I definitely did not spill them again after I had them in the bowl.
While [...]

We have not been sick for nearly two weeks – not us!  We are a pretty healthy family and take good care of ourselves.  We most definitely have not missed church – the entire family – for two weeks in a row!
On Saturday, when getting ready for our July 4th “party” (as much [...]

My brand-new 6 year old did not try to blow out candles on her cake while we were still singing Happy Birthday.  I was not already fighting a losing battle with the fan and trying to relight candles.  Then my cute, sweet little girl did not try a new technique to blow out the last [...]