I don’t have a lot of Valentine photos. What I do have is a very cute picture of cousin love in pink T-shirts with hearts on them. And that’s the best I’ve got. The two older kids had their Valentine parties at school yesterday, and Tad had so much to tell me when he got […]

Ane’s slumber party went off well.  The boys’ planned party at Grandma’s… not so much. I got a phone call about 15 minutes before the party was supposed to start.  It was Grandma, calling to tell me that Tad had just hit Rerun in the face with a cylindrical plastic container – which had no […]

Today is the day of Ane’s birthday slumber party… which just got decimated by two girls falling sick.  Oh, well.  Even Ane realizes that there’s nothing you can do about that.  Even one friend spending the night is still a party! Anyway, it put me in mind of Ane’s very first “slumber party”… which was […]

You read the title right.  Today is Auntie’s 20th birthday.  She complains about how Ane turning 9 makes her feel old.  Well, I was there in the hospital room when Auntie was born, so I feel really old. She made it home this last weekend, and even though she was working all weekend for her […]