Welcome to My Site.

Hello.

My name is Kellie, and I’m the Pirate Mom around here.

 I’m ecstatically married to my Admiral on this big ship of life, Big D. 

He is a wonderful husband and dad, and he’s not really that red.   He works for a large physical therapy company doing administration/management stuff.  In a nutshell, stuff I don’t entirely comprehend.  On the side, he dabbles in photography, but he dabbles exceptionally well.  His photography site is in my list of links on my sidebar.  He loves God and challenges me on a regular basis to love Him more and better.  I’m a blessed chick.

Our scurvy crew consists of our three children:  Bonny Annie, Dirty Harry, and Cap’n Jack Henry.  And our dog, Clara-Beard.

Annaleigh is our oldest child and only daughter. 

She’s a delight in every sense of the word.  She is smart, funny and talented.  She is sometimes sassy.  Currently, she is twelve going on about thirty.  She enjoys all kinds of involvement in the arts, including dance, singing, and drama.  She loves the stage and tries to find one to get on wherever we roam.  She is also a black belt in TaeKwonDo and loves pets and small children.  In her limited free time she enjoys reading and making beaded jewelry.  Bonny Annie is a keeper.

Harrison is our oldest son. 

I believe the expression “all boy” was probably coined just for the likes of him.  He thrives on dirt, sweat, and crude bodily noises.  I fully admit…to him and to the world… that some of his behavior is a bit of  a mystery to me.  Dirty Harry loves sports of every kind.  He is also a Tae Kwon Do black belt and plays a mean first base on his Little League team.  He is chronically obsessed with Legos.  Seriously…he needs a three-step program for his addiction.  He also enjoys reading adventure stories and playing with his dog, Clara.  I love me some Harry….dirty or no.

Cap’n Jack Henry is our surprise third child. 

He is the cutest, sweetest baby on the planet.  He also may be the smartest.  I say these things as a completely unbiased third-party observer stating the facts.  Jack Henry spends his days latched on to his mother like an extra appendage, playing with toys, being cute, drooling and refusing to eat anything that remotely looks like, smells like or acts like a vegetable.  The Cap’n may have been a surprise, but he was definitely the great kind.

Clara is our Boston Terrier. 

She is about three weeks older than Jack Henry, which officially makes us lunatics.  She is basically a good dog, who nearly worships the ground we walk on.  She is only slightly confused about where she is supposed to relieve herself.  She enjoys sleeping on our furniture, licking our feet, eating anything (including Annaleigh’s beads, Harrison’s Legos and Jack Henry’s vegetables) and running at 75 mph through our home.

We are a home schooling family, so we are together…. A LOT!  Annaleigh is a rising 8th grader, Harrison is a rising 4th grader, and Jack Henry is working on his English studies.  I am the teacher, lunch lady, bus driver, librarian, secretary and nurse.  Big D is the principal. 

This site is going to be a little of this and a little of that.  It will be my on-line journal.  It will hopefully be a place of encouragement.  I often blog about home schooling, both my adventures and misadventures.  I will converse a lot about motherhood and child-rearing.  I will post a lot of pictures.  I will post a lot of links. I may whine a little sometimes.  Consider yourselves warned.   I hope this site will make you smile.  I hope this site will make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.  I hope you will come back.  I hope you will come back often.

‘Till then,

The Pirate Mom