My weekend, while full of beautiful weather, wasn’t anything to really blog about.
Grandma and Auntie arrived home from C-O-L-D Missouri on Friday.  Nana and Papa (the Webmaster’s parents) visited on Saturday and we all went out to lunch.  Sunday was quite typical - go to church, take naps, go to Friend and Doc’s house for […]

About a week ago, we finally built our annual gingerbread house.  I have very fond memories of building these as a kid, and my mother went to a lot of effort to bake gingerbread, mix her own royal icing, buy candies to decorate it with, and put it all together (with some help from us […]

… I can’t even wrap my mind around it.
The Christmas spirit is beginning to seep in around here.  Since Thanksgiving is happening early this year, it gives us an even longer-than-usual season of festivities.  I have so many Christmas presents already purchased that I actually started wrapping them last night.

I am going to figure out […]

Sometimes, the kids do things that are completely predictable and kid-like.
Case in point: I was letting Ane color with markers - something Tad is not allowed to do just yet.  So, to keep Tad from bugging her, I gave him a few alphabet magnets to play with.
Vroom.  Ane was right there at the fridge.  “I’m […]