O Santa!  Thank you for your patience, as Rerun could not stop with the stiff fake grin until take #5.  This was the best of all 4 kids. Once we were done, we dashed off to art class, dropped Tad off, then went out for post-Santa picture pizza nearby.  We saved Tad plenty of leftovers.

This was THE weekend to get the Christmas decorating done.  So while I decorated the kitchen and cleaned up the spot for the tree, the Webmaster and Tad went shopping for the tree itself. Yakima Fruit Market was their destination, and after some “debate” about how big the tree would be (I’m being diplomatic – […]

Tad has been counting down the days to the end of November, because IT’S DECEMBER 1ST AND WE MUST CHRISTMAS ALL THE THINGS. He has really turned into the Christmas elf.  Or a Christmas nag – because if it isn’t done YET, he gives me no peace until it is. Here he is in 2016, […]

A part of me is looking at the remaining days of November and wanting to cling to them… to cherish the tiny little break in between the holidays because Thanksgiving was so early this year. And the other part of me is cracking open my recipe book and doing things like this: I actually need […]