Best Babysitter brought gifts to the kids when she came over to help me work on a project right before Christmas.  Ane got a much-needed new lamp for her room (and it’s purple, which makes it extra cool), but she gave Tad some shark pajamas… and THIS: Since you can’t tell exactly from this picture, […]

(part 4 of the Christmas debrief – and I do think we have finally come to the end…) Our belated Christmas celebration with the Webmaster’s parents, Nana and Papa, took place the day after Ane’s birthday.  They decided to spend the night up here, so then we could have a leisurely time together after Ane […]

(The birthday interlude of the Christmas debrief) It was a day long anticipated – at least by my daughter.  The day had come!  It was her birthday!  She was now seven years old!

(part 3 of the Christmas debrief) The fun continued onward as we packed ourselves up on Sunday evening to have our Christmas celebration up in Snohomish with Great-Grandma and Great-Grandpa. Our Christmas was a lot more low-key, but still plenty of fun and presents to open. Rerun was becoming quite the little ham about this […]