Julie Lyles Carr

I’ve been scaling the heights of Mount Laundry this week. I sent out a cyber SOS this week, seeing as how I was climbing over mounds of wash. Even though I have been woefully behind in my laundry duties, I actually do have a couple of things that ease the wash pain. One thing I’ve been learning lately is to…
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It was four years ago this month that I discovered I was pregnant with twins. I was already half-way through the pregnancy. We laughed. And laughed. And laughed. And then started thinking through all the implications. We went shopping for a fifteen passenger van. But in all the consideration of extra baby equipment and a double stroller and two car…
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There’s a natural phenomenon that occurs here at the OctaHouse. It must have something to do with the jet stream and barometric pressure. And vortexes. And black holes. And the Bermuda Triangle. Some conversion of those things. And the result is a laundry storm the size of which becomes mammoth and overwhelming. Apparently, one of those alignments of natural forces…
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One day a week, you’re likely to find me in the booth of my favorite coffee and bagel shops, catching up on email, writing and taking extreme delight in marking things off my to-do list. And more often than not, I have a booth mate. One of the OctaKids. It’s a homework date. Even thought the homeschool lifestyle naturally means…
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Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened. Matthew 7:7 and 8 Mind readers. We sometimes seem to want to be surrounded by mind readers….
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