On Friday, I arranged for Grandma and Gichan to keep an eye on Tad in the afternoon, and then I told Ane that I needed her to run an errand with me. I took her to the movie theater, and she began squealing and bouncing up and down when I asked for two tickets for […]

I think the Christmas shopping is close to being done. I do have a few things left to get, but I have (God willing) placed my last online orders – which have started arriving. I spent part of the kids’ nap time yesterday wrapping up presents without “help” from Ane. She wrote up the tags […]

Well, maybe not necessarily new, but new to our family’s tree. And the brand-new ones the kids picked out as their annual ornament for this year. Ane has been on a Little Mermaid kick – Ariel is arguably her favorite princess, and if not her favorite, she’s in the top three. Last year, Santa left […]

As I said earlier, our tree is up… actually, it has been for over a week now. But now it really does look like Christmas around here with the rest of the decorations up. There are some new ornaments on the tree – I’ll try to get pictures of them taken soon. In the meantime, […]