I don’t remember when I started begging to have my ears pierced, but it was probably around age seven. There is an infamous piece of video that was shot when I was eight, and we were preparing to move from Seattle proper to the wilds of the Eastside, where I am wearing clip-on earrings until […]

The kids are now out of school until after the Thanksgiving holiday. God help me. I worked up a Christmas card list and began making cards. God help me. Rerun got the hiccups for the first time last night while I was suffering through lousy customer service at Wal-Mart. God help me. (I loathe our […]

There are so many small things that can make a person’s day – and there are things that just make you happy. For Tad, it is wearing shark underwear. And getting to watch sharks. Sometimes it’s just finding a toy that he was just asking about – like his little beanbag Larry-Boy or his Mega […]

As wonderfully as Tad is doing in potty training, he’s still wearing overnight Pull-Ups at bedtime. We have experimented with underwear at night, but since there are no guarantees and he moves around so much at night from spot to spot to spot, it’s just easier and safer to keep him in Pull-Ups. He does […]