It is absolutely pouring outside.  Even going from the front door to the car guarantees that you will get very wet - especially when you add in buckling kids into car seats.
Speaking of which, does anyone out there favor any particular booster-type car seat for an older child?  We’re looking at getting a smaller back-up […]

See this cute little boy?  Handy Baby has arrived!!  He is now our group o’ friends’ official St. Patrick’s Day baby (he arrived Saturday evening), and he weighs 5 lbs, 14 oz, and is 19 inches long.  Mother and baby boy are already at home, getting to know each other, while Handy Guy learns how […]

Just some random things that have really bugged me this last week.  I think it would be a good idea to exorcise them all before I begin the weekend, don’t you?
1)  After witnessing a particularly traumatic pedestrian/car collision in a crosswalk (that was a year ago???) where the pedestrian - an elderly man in a […]

I heard it again last night: “Mommy, I too big for the nursery!”
How do you argue with your toddler when you know that she’s right?
Because Ane’s birthday is in December, she missed (by a fair margin, I’ll grant you) the cutoff date for the AWANA Cubbies preschool program at church.  So that meant that she […]