My name is Willa and I am mom to seven children (plus three with God):
- Liam, 6/86 now 20
- Brendan, 6/88 — now 18
- Clare,2/90 — turning 17
- Sean, 1/93 — just turned 14
- Kieron, 1/96 — just turned 11
- Aidan 6/99 - - now 7
- Patrick, 12/02 — now 4
I have been married to Kevin since 6/85. He is a computer game programmer and works at home; his latest game is here. I converted to Catholicism in 1990. We took the kids out of school when Liam was going into 3rd grade. He has is in his sophomore year at Thomas Aquinas College.
——————————
Our vehicle is a 1998 Suburban with over 150,000 miles on it. Almost time for a new one!
————————
We have an Australian shepherd called Frodo and a tabby cat called Klaus.
—————
We live in a log home in the California Sierra mountains not too far from Yosemite. (the link is to the company that provided the logs).

Hi Willa,
It is so nice to meet you. THanks for stopping by my blog and encouraging me to write:-) Ever since I’ve blogged just today I’ve met several new homeschool bloggers just from their comments on my blog…so it is encouraging and I so appreciate the support but I know I must not get hung up on the comments…jsut knowing that someone is being ‘blessed’ some kind of way from my writing blesses me tremendously…in a way I feel like I’ve kind of let my audience down a bit…but thank God that He is the God of second chances–He’ll restore and redeem the time…
deidra