I am taking the kids on their very first plane trip in a week. Both of them. By myself. With connecting flights. I think I might be crazy. The kids and I are flying from Seattle to Denver, and then Denver to Springfield, Missouri, to visit the Captain, Q-Bee and Belle for a week. The […]

Well, today is it for Auntie. As of tomorrow, she is technically a freshman in high school – even though in our local district, 9th graders still attend the junior high. I feel very old. We seem to have a full weekend ahead… the freezer is coming tomorrow (!!), along with Nana and Papa, the […]

Things are not good for Little Mo at the moment. She had been doing really, really well, but her latest round of medication these last couple of days included a shot that she’s had a violent reaction to. It has affected her pancreas so badly that it started (in her dad’s words) “malfunctioning” and they […]

Tad has done it to me again – waking up before his sister. This time, though, there was no vomit involved. And he’s in a pretty decent mood. But he’s had a hard time napping and has even resisted going to bed at night (sleep is for losers, apparently), so there have been some tears. […]