Ane’s school year is heading to a close. She only has five more days left, including today and taking out Memorial Day. The teachers are crunching in all the summer birthday celebrations into these last couple of weeks, so there have been “special” treats nearly every day at school. Ane asked me for a “treat” […]

What did you all expect to see??? 🙂 This is how Tad smiles when he sees a camera nowadays: I think his grandmother would say that he gets this smile from his mother.

Okay, I’ll fully admit to turning 30 this year. But not until September, mind you. But this sticks me into this generational limbo-land. Technically, I was born on the tail end of Generation X, but my early childhood was truthfully spent in the 1980’s. As a result, I am not the expert on 80’s music […]

“MOMMY! HE’S TOUCHING THAT AGAIN!” Usually, when Ane is about to tattle on Tad, it starts out with a gut-wrenching, ear-splittingly loud “MOMMY.” Or, recently, “MOTHER.” She has started calling me “Mother” and I’m not quite sure why, though I do find it amusing. More often than not, her tattling is actually something I do […]