And my wish is that the kids – who I usually have to drag out of bed, kicking and screaming, will actually sleep in. HA! In other news, the Webmaster – the son and grandson of Christmas tree farm owners – let me buy an artificial tree yesterday. Here it is: The Webmaster commented, “You [...]

I am busily working on putting my Christmas cards together and mailing them out (or handing them out) in bunches this week. All the cards are going out with this picture in them: This picture of the three kids is a miracle because: 1) All three kids are looking at the camera. 2) All three [...]

Something about It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown really seized Tad’s imagination this year.  He adored watching it.  This is great for me, since I absolutely LOVE Peanuts. It was hard, however, for him to stop watching Great Pumpkin and move onto A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.  We eventually got him to move on, but it [...]

Rerun has exactly two favorite books that he asks for each night.  He even keeps them in his crib with him. The first one is a Cat in the Hat Learning book, Oh, Say Can You Say Di-no-saur? His pronunciation of “dinosaur” now sounds like “dine-door.” He loves, loves, LOVES dinosaurs.  I mean, he also [...]