My shark boy LOVES his class swimming time.  LOVES it. And because I’ve been volunteering all this time for swimming, the kids have begun to associate me with going to swim.  This is both good and bad – one little girl, Sabrina, begins jumping up and down and flapping her hands in sheer excitement, saying […]

So yesterday, the phone rang at 5:20… AM.  I was not awake at that hour.  I have a ten-month-old who sleeps through the night, thank you very much. It was the school district, announcing via robo-call that schools were going to be closed due to snow on Wednesday.  Fair enough, I thought, once I saw […]

Christmastime is here… AAAAUUUUUUGGGGGHHHHH! I feel so completely unprepared this year, even though most of my shopping is done.  My cards aren’t ready, and I’ve been procrastinating on writing our annual Christmas letter.  I’ve kind of been hoping to say that the Webmaster has a new job, instead of simply saying that he was laid […]

When Ane was about 14 or 15 months old, we started reading Goodnight Moon to her at bedtime.  It was the first book that we ever read seriously to her, and we must have read it for a month solid before trying another book.  It became one of her favorites. Now, as an almost-seven-year-old, Ane […]