What do you mean, this is the LAST DAY of November? You mean that TOMORROW will be December?? Three guesses on who in this house started cheering at that news… In other interesting news that I’m finally getting around to report, Tad is officially off the gluten free diet!  He’s actually been off since Halloween, […]

When Ane was about 14 or 15 months old, we started reading Goodnight Moon to her at bedtime.  It was the first book that we ever read seriously to her, and we must have read it for a month solid before trying another book.  It became one of her favorites. Now, as an almost-seven-year-old, Ane […]

Last week, the Webmaster took Ane out for some special one-on-one time.  On Saturday, it was my turn. I had a haircut scheduled, so I took Ane with me (where she totally cracked up my stylist by sitting in the waiting area, reading the newspaper and looking so serious about it) and then we ran […]

We have reached the parent-teacher conference stage of the school year, and the end of the first trimester.  Lord, have mercy! Tad, being in half-day kindergarten, won’t be going back to school until after Thanksgiving, because there’s no school for the half-day kindergarteners on half-days.  My saving grace this year is that Ane, at least, […]