Dear Tad, Do you know how much I love you?  I love you so VERY much. You are seven years old today, and you are so aware of it being your birthday that you answered a “why” question perfectly this morning when we were heading off to church.  You didn’t want to go.  “Why can’t […]

It has been a long, busy week here at the Corner Haus.  The house itself has been quiet, mostly because we haven’t been around much.  Sports Camp (our church’s version of Vacation Bible School) started on Monday and wrapped up yesterday, and Ane, Tad and I were in the thick of it.  Rerun stayed home […]

Well, that’s what I call it.  He calls it “Play-Doh.” Yes, that is a shark cookie cutter in his hand.  Ane looked at it and said, “If we washed it off really well, do you think we could make cookies with that?” I said yes, but we might want something bigger. In the meantime, he’s […]

Right before the school year ended – and we already knew that Tad wasn’t going to qualify for the extended school year (aka summer school) program, his teacher told me about a summer program at the school that he could do. Because Tad’s (now former) school is always behind in the No Child Left Behind […]