It’s the day after Labor Day, and Auntie is back in school as a freshly-minted sophomore.
Sunday night, she baby-sat Ane, Tad, the Brain and Head at Friend and Doc’s house while all the grown-ups (plus Best Babysitter) watched Casino Royale with RiffTrax.  Since neither the commentary or the movie are child-appropriate, we had to get […]

At the Corner Haus right now, you can spell it many ways.
For example, Tad spells it ENEMA.
We finally gave him one last night.  It was not pleasant.  It is better than waiting for your child to come out of surgery, but not by much.  Tad had so much pressure built up inside his little body […]

First, it was this:

Then, it was this:

Now, we have this:

The T-shirt says “Scars are like Tatoos… but the Stories are better.”  Auntie got this shirt for herself (and notice the lovely softball-sized bruise on her upper arm that she acquired this last weekend while playing a tournament with her team in Portland, Oregon), and then […]

My children’s Grandma is having a birthday today.  I don’t think I’m allowed to say how old she is.  I will say that she is only 20 years older than I am, so she is a young Grandma.
Love you, Mom!