On Halloween, I found that someone had ripped the entire 1982 video version of “Disney’s Halloween Treat” to YouTube. So we watched it. The kids really enjoyed it, especially since they’ve now seen so many of the early movies that are clipped for the old special. During the Sleepy Hollow segment (which the kids have […]

TOO. MUCH. LARRY. BOY. STOP. IT. NOW. When Tad was sick, he started asking for the Larry-Boy DVDs. We complied. There are only 3 of them. I like them, but Tad now has them pretty much memorized. It has to stop. He will not shut up. I am losing my mind. If you thought his […]

One of the most basic rules of the house is that if you don’t eat dinner, you don’t get dessert. Not that we have dessert every night, mind you. But when we have company, something generally makes an appearance by the end of the evening. On Sunday, we had a full house. Friend, Doc and […]

After a little deliberation and a viewing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, I have decided that we will be referring to the new baby currently in utero by the name of Rerun. As in, Rerun van Pelt. It makes total sense. We already have Lucy (the bossy, know-it-all big sister) and Linus (savant-with-blanket […]