Ane has been begging me to teach her how to cross-stitch for a while now.  We even had a starter kit purchased and opened… and that was about 9 months ago, I think. We finally got started on it on Saturday. She picked the kit – it’s a picture of a cupcake.  Of course. The […]

And it rained.  And rained.  And rained. It figures. I got out some new puzzles for Rerun, Tad did a lot of coloring, and Ane got to make cookies.  We decided on snickerdoodles because we had exactly one egg left in the house at that moment. When the timer went off, letting us know that […]

The kids had Tuesday off from school as well, and I had to take all four of them grocery shopping with me.  However, it turned out pretty well (though Tad could not stop touching stuff and Rerun kept trying to eat the food in the cart that we hadn’t bought yet) because Ane and I […]

Ane has a field trip scheduled for today.  It’s going to be pretty boring, but that’s not my fault.  Blame the teachers, the district, and the local government.  The third grade classes are going to the local wastewater and sewage treatment plant in order to be indoctrinated on how wonderful recycling and government is, and […]