We finally managed to have our dear friends Mr. R. and Mrs. K., and their kids Gracie and L., over for dinner this weekend.  Since we only get to see and feed them once or twice every couple of years, we go all out on the food.  So I made a favorite cake for dessert […]

Ane was really the only child who knew and understood that I was going in for surgery.  I think Tad had an idea of it, but I don’t think it bothered him terribly.  It might have if I hadn’t come home that night. We left at about 10 am for the hospital, and came back […]

This is the 8th Christmas that we’ve gotten our kids together with Friend and Doc’s boys.  I did a flashback photo series on this last year. We celebrated Christmas with them last night, and threatened all the children who were threatenable with not getting to open their presents until we got a good picture of […]

The older two are on half-days right now for parent-teacher conferences.  I already had Ane’s conference on Thursday, which was the first of these half-days.  The kids are still eating lunch at school, but now it’s at an insanely early hour – I know Tad is eating lunch around 10:45, and I can’t imagine that […]