Between gift cards, birthday cash and Tooth Fairy money, Tad had enough to finally buy the Lego set of his dreams – the new Batcave. He was literally breathing down my neck, begging me to get it open.  I opened it up and spread out my doom on the kitchen table. There were 5 bags […]

This post should be subtitled: “His mother is exhausted from running around at church kids’ sports camp this week, which she will talk about later, so she is copping out with a cute baby post.” He has his own toddler crayons, and I gave him an old Sesame Street coloring book that had already been […]

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 […]

And not just cupcakes.  Dark Chocolate Bacon Cupcakes. I made them for Sunday night dessert at Friend and Doc’s, when we had more company than usual with some mutual friends.  Auntie had made some chocolate cupcakes with vanilla buttercream and offered me some, so the kids had those.  The grown-ups got these. Verdict was that […]