The Gatannah Files

Do you ever just have a time where it feels like you can't get your head above water? Nothing terrible has happened this week. In fact, ...

Hi, friends! I thought we could check in with Mal this morning (now night; all I got to this AM was adding the picture, then we had to go). ...

Did I mention that I'd started mystery shopping again?  Well, I did. Restart, I mean. I genuinely don't remember whether I wrote abo...

For those of you keeping score, you'll know that Mal is turning 9 next month! I took this picture of him yesterday, wearing his 8th birt...

I posted several weeks ago about Mal's obsession with flags . Since then, he's stayed pretty consistently interested. He's const...

My sister texted me yesterday as she was watching "Shiny Happy People," a docuseries about the Duggars  specifically and the IBLP ...

Mal will be nine years old soon, and would be going into third grade if he were in school (his birthday is late in September, so he'd be...

Except for our oven (which we're going to simply throw out and not replace as soon as James builds me a cabinet to hold an induction bur...

Two cool things happened at the end of October/beginning of November. The first thing is that another unschooler made me aware of a Hallowee...

Mal and I came up to Dallas the last week in June because he wanted to visit KidZania. A few weeks ago, he wanted to return to stay at Great...

Yesterday was Father's Day. In the morning, we'd gotten out our "ironing bead" set for Mal to make something for James. Ma...

 If it's 9:00 AM, Malcolm is dressed for the day. For most of Mal's life, he's pretty much been happy doing his thing in a diape...

Yesterday (Wednesday, January 26; it's taken me a while to finish this) was beautiful but chilly. First sunny day in a while, but in the...

Last Saturday, Mal wanted to go to Indigo Play, so we picked up one of his best friends, a girl named Kona (we've talked about her befor...

A few weeks ago, Mal was asking me if his cousin's son was his in-law. I told him no, he doesn't have any in-laws. He was pretty bum...