It’s a well-known fact that while you can run all year round, here in the Pacific Northwest you can really only run outside between late March and late September. Which means that the first 5K of the year that we usually participate in is the Run2Pieces at the end of March, which supports the Autism […]

Sort of. Rerun was outside playing with bubbles on the back porch, and Thumper went outside to join him.  Next thing I knew, Thumper was carefully setting up the leftover logs that we had carted up from the woodpile in rows.  There were two different spots Thumper was working in. Once he had them set […]

Excuse me, I did not order an extension on winter. Your eyes do not deceive you – that is over an inch of snow.  It was just enough to mess up the school buses and make things generally miserable this morning. And ohhhhh boy, did Tad fight me about having to go to school when […]

With all the school days that we missed, the school district has been trying to figure out how to get kids out of school before July. The end result is going to be messy, kids. Starting next Monday, school is going to start 10 minutes earlier (which means buses will pick up 10 minutes earlier), […]