Grandma and Gichan gave Tad these nice fleecy jammies for Christmas.  He loved them immediately because they had a rocket ship on them. Later, about a month before Rerun was born, I stumbled across a Carter’s sale at Fred Meyer and found a sleeper in the same rocket ship pattern. And instantly, I imagined Tad […]

We made the rounds on Saturday. Sort of. It was one of those rare Saturdays when we didn’t have any pressing plans… though there was a meeting at church that we ultimately decided to skip, mostly because the kids hadn’t napped and there was no childcare (it was a meet-and-greet with the potential new senior […]

Before her birthday coupon expired, we managed to get to Red Robin for Ane’s birthday sundae. Unlike last year, when the restaurant was so short-staffed due to snow that they couldn’t scrounge up enough employees to sing to her, she had a full contingent clapping and singing to her. And the sundae was delicious, of […]

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 […]