With the Webmaster back at work, we are attempting to get into a “regular” routine in the mornings.  He has been leaving before Rerun heads off to school, but Rerun is awake when he does.  The older two have been missing him – his absence is a little disorienting for Tad, but he’s handled the […]

Thumper is like the living embodiment of the Carpenters’ song “Close To You.”  This is what he likes to do to me when I sit down to crochet or watch TV. I was working on a new project and trying to watch the World Series… and then I realized I had a monkey on my […]

Yesterday was my birthday, and I got a year older.  And I got a few gifts.  The older I get, the more I just want a meal I don’t have to cook and kids that behave as a gift for the day. I got that (good effort by the kids on their end of that […]

Dear Tad, I have been hearing and talking about your ninth birthday for a few weeks now, and it blows me away to think that you are really, truly, nine years old today.  So much has happened in just one year. And I know you hate change.  You crave the stability and predictability of your […]