I was out very late last night, going through the parent orientation for summer camp.  By the time I finally stepped back through the front door yesterday, the boys were all ready for bed. (Ane is another story and is supposed to be responsible for herself.) Tad and Rerun are going to be attending summer […]

It’s Memorial Day weekend.  This weekend, we pay our respects to our honored dead. Ane and I are making plans to attend a Memorial Day service at the cemetery in Seattle where my grandfather is buried.  If we make it, it will be worth a blog post of its own.

I was asked yesterday what we did last summer, as I was making plans for this coming summer. I must admit that I sighed deeply and said, “We went to Hawaii.” We won’t get back before the Major and Q-Bee and the girls move on to their next post, but we will get back there […]

It’s hard to believe that it was three years ago that we were unpacking after our first big family-of-six vacation to the Washington D.C. area.  Ane and I were just talking about that trip today, and how vividly she remembers our day out with her, when we took her to Ford’s Theatre. Tad and Rerun […]