Dear Tad, Today is the day you and I have both talked about for a while now.  Today, you are an actual teenager.  Today, you are thirteen years old. I am not sure I am entirely prepared to have a teenage son.  And yet everything about you screams “teenager.”  Your voice has cracked, your body […]

We made it! Another summer’s worth of camp is in the books, and now for a little breather. And by “breather” I mean take the boys for haircuts.  They are all looking a little shaggy.  Hair grows faster in the summer!

It’s August!  I can hardly believe it.  And today is the boys’ last day at camp! Here they were at the last day of camp last year. I’ll take a picture today and it’s going to be shockingly obvious how much Tad has grown in a single year.

Who needs a roller coaster when you can ride the “uppy down” while eating a doughnut? After all, you can’t eat a doughnut on a roller coaster, right? Thumper actually decided he was done after 20 minutes, so I asked him if he wanted to go play at the play area. We didn’t make it […]