Today is the big day! Dum-da-dum-DUMM!!! Ten year high school reunion, tonight! I am nervous, because I am anticipating the thing being a total bust, unfortunately. The Webmaster discovered that someone from the class created a MySpace page for the reunion, and the people posting on it are not people that I really knew. I […]

So, the Captain’s birthday is coming up, and I wanted to mail his package yesterday. This was the plan: – wake up early, get kids fed – run errands to grocery store, post office, and gas station between breakfast and lunch – get home, feed kids lunch, get them down for naps – church starts […]

Yesterday, I went and had the kids’ portraits taken. This is their annual picture-together-that-is-not-a-Christmas-picture-so-no-Christmas-backgrounds-please portrait. I’ve started always doing a full family one in April (Mom and Dad included), and then doing the kids by themselves in October. Lucky for me, Auntie had the day off of school and I managed to beg both her […]

The great Christmas shopping bonanza began months ago – in my mind, at least. As a result, I do have the kids mostly taken care of, save a few toys and stocking stuffers. But I’ve been buying clothes for them at different points through the year, especially when the summer clearances happened. So I’m feeling […]