Yesterday, she was leading the younger grades around.  TODAY, she goes to class herself. And yes, she’s getting absurdly tall to be standing on the hearth for these pictures, but it’s tradition – plus you can really get a sense of how tall she has gotten. The dress is courtesy of Auntie’s best friend JZ. […]

Here is our big sixth grader, headed off to middle school! Tad would be much happier to be going back to his beloved elementary school – I caught him poring over last year’s yearbook this morning – and attending 6th grade there.  But this is the big year of the junior highs becoming middle schools, […]

As I write this, kids are sleeping with the knowledge that Mom is waking them up at 8 am to start thinking about school. School starts Wednesday, and both Ane and Tad will need to be waking up earlier than that, but it’s a start.  Actually, Tad’s bus driver called and we must be the […]

I gave away Thumper’s old infant car seat (yeah, he really is the last one).  But before I did, he tried it out one more time. He’s probably thinking, “What gives? I used to fit in this seat!” And he did, once upon a time. That picture is Thumper at two weeks old, when he […]