This school year, with Thumper now in extended day preschool 3 days a week, I have a little extra time to do things.  So Auntie recruited me to volunteer in her classroom (she teaches 3rd grade).  I go in once a week on Mondays. This last Monday, Auntie had a social studies lesson that should […]

More important than the food… … and boy, was there a LOT of food… … is the family you get to spend time with on New Year’s Day. Even if the littlest one could barely stay still for the picture. And just because everyone else who was in the next picture was also at New […]

When Tad said it was snowing on Christmas Eve, none of us (we were at Grandma and Gichan’s house for our annual Christmas Eve dinner of pizza, so when I say “us,” there were a lot of “us”) believed him until we looked out the window. And then the freakout began, because it was actually […]

The older kids were elated to get a chance to open a couple of presents on Sunday, but Tad was thrilled when he opened this gift… He had just seen this mug in the ThinkGeek catalog, and loved it at first sight.  So he was VERY excited to receive one as a gift! The most […]