2004 was the first Christmas that Ane, the Brain, and Head spent together… mostly because it was Ane and Head’s first Christmas ever. Look at how little they are!  This is a scanned photo – we didn’t even own a digital camera then. By the next year, Tad had joined the crowd. For a while, […]

As soon as the kids were up, they were begging to go outside.  They had no idea how cold it really was, so I made them wait until nearly noon, when it was 27 degrees instead of 25. It was Rerun’s first time seeing what all this white stuff was.  When it flurried on Sunday, […]

On Tuesday evening, we went out to dinner with Friend and Doc and their boys to Red Robin, as we usually do at this time of year.  My birthday lands six days before Doc’s, so we have a period of time when our free birthday burgers overlap.  And so, for lo these many years, we’ve […]

It was time for a family adventure.  And Ane’s school PTA had bought a block of tickets for yesterday’s Mariners game.  So the Webmaster and I decided to get tickets – and that we ALL would go. And then we held our breath.  Because taking Ane and Tad to a ballgame is very different from […]