Operation Roommate Swap is a go! Step one: buy and assemble bunk bed.  It goes in Ane’s room. Step two: switch the little boys.  Rerun will have the bottom bunk in Ane’s room, and Thumper will have the toddler bed in the boys’ room. Step three: sleep train Thumper to stay in bed without Tad […]

“Can we get this house remodel going?  I would like this bed, please.” Yes, we are in trouble.  And we are out of room in this house.  Unfortunately, the building boom in our area has yielded McMansions with zero yard.  We refer to them as “postage stamp” houses.  As a result, we are pursuing a […]

Back in January, this happened. This was a large section of our backyard fence that, thanks to the passage of time and a big windstorm, got knocked over.  The Webmaster and the neighbors propped it back up, nailed some support planks in place, and shored it up with some of the loose wood, but we […]

Thumper is enjoying the ability to pull himself up on furniture.   What he hasn’t quite figured out is how to get down.  Right now, he does a descent called “a sudden fall” and usually involves a few cries of shock. He’ll get it figured out. And in my first day of “get stuff cleaned […]