Tad’s artistic vision often gets lost in his choice of medium. That is to say, he often punishes whatever he’s using so much that it breaks. Or he eats it. Well, he hasn’t done that for a while, but there was a time when markers and crayons were more food than art items. Last night […]

Ane sometimes likes to debrief us on what she learned in Sunday school. Yesterday, though, I had gotten a little inside baseball to her class that day. You see, her Sunday school teachers during the 9 am hour are… Grandma and Gichan. They’ve been teaching the pre-kindergarten Sunday school for years now. So, Grandma told […]

If telling Ane was the hardest part about the miscarriage, at least it was quick and clean. Not unlike severing a hand with a lightsaber. Sorry, Tad left his lightsaber on the floor over here by the computer. Telling everyone else who didn’t hear about it on day one or two has been akin to […]

I am pleased to say that both kids are doing pretty well in Cubbies. Tad is a challenge because of his speech issues, but generally, he’s doing better than I’d thought he would. A lot of that is attributable to school, and the reinforcement of rules that he’s getting there. He said his very first […]