My war against the dandelions progresses, though I have no more room in the yard waste bin because the Webmaster mowed the backyard last night. It was really quite long, so now it looks less like a jungle out there. However, I must now abandon my yard and my gardening (bummer, but the yard waste […]

I heard it again last night: “Mommy, I too big for the nursery!” How do you argue with your toddler when you know that she’s right? Because Ane’s birthday is in December, she missed (by a fair margin, I’ll grant you) the cutoff date for the AWANA Cubbies preschool program at church. So that meant […]

We are rapidly approaching the next phase in Ane’s social development: picking your own friends. Up until this point, the majority of the children that she has socialized with in her three years of life have been the children of friends – prime example, the Brain and Head. Because of the Webmaster’s and my friendships […]

I was promised daylight. Here in the Great North-wet (ha ha), this whole “moving up Daylight Savings Time to get more light” is a big, fat joke. I’m sure they’re laughing even harder in Alaska. All this means is that we get a little more light in the evening, but it is now totally pitch […]