Last Friday was the high school’s annual father-daughter dance for elementary age girls.  This year’s theme was “Candyland,” so Ane asked if she could go as a cupcake. Since it’s not a costume dance, we went with a fluffy pastel look, I made her a tulle skirt with 4 different colors of tulle, and she […]

Rerun’s current bedtime request is “Because A Little Bug Went Ka-Choo!”  Thumper joined in the fun. Rerun has heard this story before, but now he especially loves it because we managed to get a copy of the “Between the Lions” episode that went over this book.  And I love seeing them reading together at bedtime. […]

I must have been around Ane’s age when I started baking cookies by myself.  Gichan’s favorite has always been chocolate chip, and I remember that being the first cookie recipe that I made all by myself.  I was crushed when my cookies were spreading like crazy, and were like lacy pools of dough studded with […]

The Webmaster is in the process of doing a really big and much-needed system upgrade for us here at home.  Which means I am blogging from the iPad at the moment and waiting for all of my data to be copied and transferred from the old system to the new system.   Which also means […]