Do not promise Ane that she can stay up to finish a 300 piece puzzle. It’s VERY late and the Webmaster and I are still putting the blasted thing together on the living room floor. We told her it would be done when she got up, once we finally told her she had to go […]

I know the time is coming, and coming quickly, that I won’t be able to “fix” all the hurts, disappointments, and sorrows that come into Ane’s and Tad’s lives. Nor should I continue to “fix” things for them. But it is still really cool that right now, a lollipop (or poppylock) can still right most […]

Tad pooped in the potty yesterday!!! Woo-HOO!!!!!!!!! I owe it all to C-3PO and R2-D2. One of the potty training strategies that was suggested at the seminiar I attended a couple of months ago was to have “potty” toys – toys that never left the bathroom, and the child could only play with them while […]

Ane has been begging for a certain Christmas ornament since the second she laid eyes on it. And me rolling my eyes and telling her I’d think about it didn’t satisfy her. Every time she saw something that suggested it, she’d remind me that she REALLY WANTED that ornament. On Sunday, I caved. It was […]