When Halloween falls on a school day, it’s always smarter to NOT wear your real costume to school.  Most of the time, it would be too complicated to wear, and schools have rules about masks. So Tad just wore his Halloween Garfield T-shirt, and tossed on his headband and shark fin from last year. And […]

I finally made it to one of Ane’s swim meets, and it was the last one of the season. Ane has worked really hard this season, shaving seconds off her best times on a consistent basis.  The team is still small and in a rebuilding phase, so while they didn’t win any meets, they put […]

This actually came home last week, but that’s okay.  Tad has joined art club at school – which means that he stays after for the club meeting once a week, and then we pick him up when club is over.  Ms. A, his former art teacher of the last two years, runs art club, and […]

While we were celebrating my birthday at the baseball game, Ane was busy getting herself ready for the Homecoming dance! Good thing Grandma was around to pick her up from work, take her to get her hair done, drop her off at a friend’s house to get ready, and then pick Ane and her friends […]