We are a raucous Chesapeake, Va. family consisting of one dad (Fred), one mom (Emily), and 3 insane, crazy, ninja, monkey boys. The boys range in ages from John 10, Luke 5 and Noah almost 2 yrs. They keep life a daily source of comedy and tragedy mixed with the tremendous blessing of having been chosen to be their parents. You’ll get to know them through stories here on the blog.

I am blessed to be a stay at home mom but that in no way means it isn’t a job. Amidst the groaning piles of laundry, towers of dishes, and linoleum floors full of free range cheerios I have the opportunity to be on the leadership staff of an amazing mom’s group at our church (www.tabmoms.com), work the infant nursery on Sunday mornings (other people’s babies really sometimes are better. You get to give ‘em back!), and chauffer to a multitude of activities for the kids. I love crafting when time allows and budget demands and you can often find me chained to my sewing machine in a flurry of projects for every holiday under the sun. I love knitting and crocheting as it puts paid to the whole “idle hands” old wives tale and makes me feel less guilty about the amount of tv my eyes are blurry with. I haven’t scrap booked in ages but hope to make a dutiful return to the creative art that heaps guilt upon a mother for every additional child we’ve added to our families and forgotten to take pictures of every first and forgotten to record their unique moments in the conundrum we call parenthood.

Fred is a great dad, wonderful husband, and noble son and works hard to keep us all supplied in socks, diapers (for only one of us thank you Jesus, although there are days I really think I could use them and get a lot more done) underwear, macaroni and cheese, hot dogs, a metric ton of ramen noodles, and a beautiful home to contain all the madness in. He’s a software engineer that is amazingly self taught and while his credentials don’t look great on paper, you can’t imagine the genius that rolls around in that head from knowledge he’s consumed on numerous pc related fronts that he has taught himself. He’s currently on year 3 of teaching himself the mandolin and is remarkably accomplished for one who has been at it such a short amount of time. He, like myself, has a variety of other hobbies that include snowboarding, careening down roller coasters, and spending many bleary eyed nights glued to WOW. I”m not explaining that last one further. If you don’t know what it is, then you’re a Monday Night football/sports widow and probably wouldn’t understand.

That’s us in a nutshell. A fun loving, Jesus devoted, insane family sharing bits and glimpses into our world through the eyes of this blog. Oh and if it’s a bit foggy in here, for crying out loud, there’s 4 men in this house and it’s full of gas.