I have been really sporadic lately, it seems that things have been more than busy here. We moved and let me tell you moving with six children is just tiring. But it is a great move and we are very happy. The one downside about  moving is that there is no internet service at our new house. Well that is not 100% true … there is some but it is slow, slow, slow, which means we have not been using it. We have a new provider that we are going to ‘hook up’ with in hopes to getting back to a speed that we can tolerate. How did we ever handle dial up?

Anyways in the meantime I am busy unpacking and playing outside with my children. But soon there will be more than you can imagine. I have pictures of everything to share.

The first day of moving into our new house, there was a single beautiful yellow rose bud in a little garden near the house. Over the next three days, as we hauled boxes in the very hot sun we watched as this single rose opened from a tight little bud to a huge gorgeous yellow rose.

Picture taken by Caitlyn Lemmon

The morning after our first night here at the new house, I went out to see this beautiful rose. The air was filled with chirping birds and it was peaceful. I thought about my sister, Lisa, she has always been very fond of yellow roses. As I walked by the little garden with the single yellow rose in full bloom, I thought of Lisa, so many miles away but still right here in my heart.

So I snapped a picture with my phone and sent it to her. A Yellow rose for Lisa, my beautiful sister. I am so glad that there is a part of her here at our home!!

Let me introduce Queen Eleanor

Caitlyn was recently in the show The Ballet of Robin Hood through Children’s Theater of Knoxville.

It was a wonderful performance.

I am always so very impressed what these very talented young actors do.

I had the pleasure f getting to do Caitlyn’s hair, I use to do it all the time for dance recitals and it brought back lots of great memories!!!

A magical Wednesday to you!

Willy looking out our new back door to what we refer to as 'the desert', where the kids love to play!!!

Well, things around Six Flower Mom’s home has been crazy … in a most wonderful kind of way. As a family we have been looking for the ‘perfect’ place to live and stopping by some very special and wonderful places along the way. But we have found maybe the perfect place. We have spent the last few weeks packing, organizing and moving. We love it and hope for it to continue to be the right place for us. But let me tell you something … moving with six children is tough. But we have done it, with the help of Grandma we have finally moved all our stuff and are getting settled. I still have lots to unpack but we are functioning (makes me wonder if we really need all the things that are still in the boxes????).

In the middle of all this moving I was interviewed by the local newspaper regarding homeschooling and today the article came out, please check it out: ‘Alternative form of homeschooling offers little structure, free-spirited learning’. I was very pleased to see a very positive homeschooling/unschooling article. Thanks you Knoxnews.com for the great article.

So does this make me famous? Probably not but I am just tickled!

I have lots to share but even more boxes to unpack and organize. I also am dealing with internet issues …. our new house does not have service for regular high speed internet, cable, DSL and the Broadband is very iffy. So my internet use has been limited (not such a bad thing)!

Thanks for stopping by and I sure hope that you have a most wonderful day!

My daughters have been in the kitchen this week. They made Onigiri (rice balls). These are really easy and a very tasty side dish. We used some pink salmon which we sauteed in a little  salt and topped with plum sauce.

The girls had fun making them into shapes. They started with the traditional triangle and then Ally got creative and made some animals. Artistic cooking, what fun!

We made a bunch and had them with dinner and then the next day, they were a great snack for the little ones. Easy, healthy and yummy!

A magical Wednesday to you!

Please let me introduce Milton and Dante. They are our new poison ivy controllers! They have Nigerian Dwarfs and they are so very sweet.

The kids have been taking them for walks on a leash. And yes indeed they are eating away all the underbrush! YEAH, this is the perfect alternative to chemicals.

Milton and Dante are brothers and have been together all their lives. They do like to play with each other. They also love people and they start making noise as soon as someone goes outside. They love to be pet and talked to. Milton is a little wild and crazier and Dante is just a mellow guy but we are really enjoying them both very much. They have quickly become one of the family!

We have a winner. Thank you so much to everyone who stopped by! Our winner is {drum roll please} …

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Genvieve don’t forget to share your canvas with us when you get it.

I seem to always post pictures of my littlest ones, My older girls are just not as photogenic as they use to be OR so they think. But I love it when I download pictures and see them.

… I always feel it deep in my stomach … that “oh my, I have a daughter that is that grown and beautiful? How did that happen?”

I just am not sure how or when they grew up. But I do know that I am proud of them, not only for the beauty but for who they are becoming. The kind people that they are. They are amazing!

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A magical Wednesday to you!

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