My weekend, while full of beautiful weather, wasn’t anything to really blog about. Grandma and Auntie arrived home from C-O-L-D Missouri on Friday. Nana and Papa (the Webmaster’s parents) visited on Saturday and we all went out to lunch. Sunday was quite typical – go to church, take naps, go to Friend and Doc’s house […]

About a week ago, we finally built our annual gingerbread house. I have very fond memories of building these as a kid, and my mother went to a lot of effort to bake gingerbread, mix her own royal icing, buy candies to decorate it with, and put it all together (with some help from us […]

… I can’t even wrap my mind around it. The Christmas spirit is beginning to seep in around here. Since Thanksgiving is happening early this year, it gives us an even longer-than-usual season of festivities. I have so many Christmas presents already purchased that I actually started wrapping them last night. I am going to […]

Sometimes, the kids do things that are completely predictable and kid-like. Case in point: I was letting Ane color with markers – something Tad is not allowed to do just yet. So, to keep Tad from bugging her, I gave him a few alphabet magnets to play with. Vroom. Ane was right there at the […]