Even within all the visiting family time that we had, we tried to keep some semblance of our normal lives intact. Which is why we spent Friday evening with Friend and Doc and the boys, eating a delicious turkey barley soup that Friend had made out of her leftover turkey. She had her family over […]

Tad refused to eat dinner on Sunday night. Shocking, I know. Friend is a great cook, and yet Tad chooses to be picky. He didn’t seem to care much, though, and was happily playing with toys. He had dumped out some alphabet blocks and was arranging them back in their wooden cart (while reading the […]

One of the most basic rules of the house is that if you don’t eat dinner, you don’t get dessert. Not that we have dessert every night, mind you. But when we have company, something generally makes an appearance by the end of the evening. On Sunday, we had a full house. Friend, Doc and […]

After a little deliberation and a viewing of It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, I have decided that we will be referring to the new baby currently in utero by the name of Rerun. As in, Rerun van Pelt. It makes total sense. We already have Lucy (the bossy, know-it-all big sister) and Linus (savant-with-blanket […]