Dear Rerun, Yes, it is your fourth birthday today!  This has been a year of big transitions for you.  Every time I wonder if you are really maturing and growing and learning, you do something amazing that reminds me just how different raising you is from raising your older sister or older brother.  Maybe being […]

It’s not so much that I’m ready for Christmas to show up. It’s more that I’m out of time to get anything else done, so I’ve hit a wall in what I can accomplish. I’ve been keeping a to-do list since Thanksgiving weekend, and it just kept getting longer.  I did manage to get most […]

Does it seem to anyone else that we are very suddenly running out of time in this calendar year? I am marking time staring into this little boy’s eyes…   … but all around me is a whirlwind of activity and hype and crazy and SCREAMING CHILDREN. And Rerun’s constant refrain of “Mom!  Mom!  Mom! […]

And yet another piece of Ane news… She has progressed into baking cakes. Friend shared her family’s recipe for Kentucky Butter Cake a while ago, and Ane has decided that it is one of her absolute favorite cakes.  It’s also an absurdly simple cake to make, so long as you have all the ingredients on […]