Welcome to Many Many Toes

We finally did it. We started a blog.

I've been talking about this for a while. Every time something funny or hard or good happened around here, I'd think, "I should write that down." And then I wouldn't. So this is me actually writing it down.

Who we are

We're a Catholic family. Mom and Dad and eight kids. We homeschool, we live on a little piece of land, and our house is almost never quiet.

The kids range from little ones still learning to read all the way up to almost-grown. That means on any given day we're doing phonics at one end of the table and talking about college at the other. It's a lot. It's also a lot of fun.

Why write it down

Mostly for us. The years go fast with this many kids. I look back at photos from five years ago and I barely remember those days. I want to remember more of it.

But I also know there are other families out there walking a similar road. Big families, homeschool families, families trying to live the faith at home without being perfect at it. If something we write helps one of them, that would make me really happy.

What you'll find here

We'll write about everyday life in a full house. The property and everything that goes wrong (and sometimes right) out there. Homeschooling and what's working for us right now. And how we try to keep the faith at the center of it all, the feast days and the prayers and the ordinary stuff in between.

Most of it will come from me. Mom will write too. And every once in a while one of the kids will take a turn, which I'm looking forward to.

We aren't experts. We're figuring it out as we go, same as everybody else.

Anyway. Welcome. Pull up a chair. We'll try to keep the shoes out of the way.