The stockings were filled, the tree was lit… and kids were impatient to get going!  After they finally got up, that is.

Cramming all these holiday events plus birthday events into the two weeks that the cousins were here was a bit of a stretch.  It made Ane’s birthday a very long day.  We started with her annual portraits being taken at JC Penney’s (where they were running behind), and then we headed off to our lunch […]

Dear Ane, You are eleven years old today, and I’m not sure how that happened. You are only six inches shorter than I am, seem to be all arms and legs, and now you have braces and pierced ears, and you listen to all sorts of music that I don’t.  And you watched Sesame Street […]

From all of us here at the Corner Haus to you, a very merry Christmas!!! Love, Deanna, the Webmaster, Ane, Tad, Rerun and Thumper