We had a long day on Christmas Eve.  Our church had services at 3 and 5 pm, and Ane and Tad were both in the kids’ choir that was singing in it.  Tad and two of the other boys in the special needs class that I’ve been teaching were going to be singing the first [...]

Flashback Friday is being preempted for a hilarious story. Last night was our first annual church Christmas lighting.  Basically, a whole group of us gathered together to watch the Christmas lights switch on for the first time on the church building and sing a couple of carols. The lights themselves aren’t that fascinating – just [...]

Our goal: get three pumpkins carved.  The location: our church’s family pumpkin carving night. First things first: get pumpkins prepped.  This means cleaning them out of seeds and gunk. Tad was good for exactly three scoops with the spoon before he turned to me and uttered the magic words: “Mama, you do it.” Once the [...]

From our annual Bike Night at Cubbies on Wednesday: Did he want to stop when it was over?  Nope.  Who can blame him?