This is the 8th Christmas that we’ve gotten our kids together with Friend and Doc’s boys.  I did a flashback photo series on this last year. We celebrated Christmas with them last night, and threatened all the children who were threatenable with not getting to open their presents until we got a good picture of [...]

The older two are on half-days right now for parent-teacher conferences.  I already had Ane’s conference on Thursday, which was the first of these half-days.  The kids are still eating lunch at school, but now it’s at an insanely early hour – I know Tad is eating lunch around 10:45, and I can’t imagine that [...]

Friday’s weather started off cloudy, and it did look a little like rain.  But I was pleased, because I knew that the cloudy weather would probably keep many people away from the zoo.  A number of school districts in the area had a teacher inservice day as well, so I was hoping that the zoo [...]

We made our annual pilgrimage to Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium on Saturday to see the sharks.  It was “Shark Day” at the aquarium, and it was the weekend before Tad’s birthday.  Why not go?  Ane’s friend Lisa, her little brother T.J., and their parents met up with us there to make this a real [...]