There was no school yesterday. The ground was wet and bare until 4 pm. Argh. The kids COULD have gone to school today, but because a storm was predicted, the districts went into a panic about getting the kids home, and so cancelled the whole day. Ane was terribly upset. There is snow now, and […]

I was able to deliver a small plate of cookies yesterday to our children’s librarian. Every time we do something like this for her, she just shakes her head and says, “How do you find the time?” I have no idea. So far, the Peppermint Snowballs, Gingerbread Bears (easily the most time consuming cookie) and […]

Friday evening, the Webmaster’s company had their annual Christmas/holiday party. So he and I went out and pretended to be grown-ups for a few hours at the Renaissance Hotel in Seattle, where we had lobster bisque from the buffet, danced, ate far too many dessert (but they had tiramisu!), and chatted with many of the […]

Ane is slowly learning how to write her own name. She has all the letters down – it’s getting them in the right order that’s the problem. Her real name has just a few more letters than her blog one. Yesterday, I took Ane over to my parents’ house after we dropped Tad off at […]