Whatever happened to paper dolls? Yes, I know they still exist, but why are they not marketed to little girls in the same way that they once were? This has come up because Ane is completely in love with her Little House paper dolls. “Mommy, I really LOVE my new paper dolls,” she told me. […]

Yeah. That second tooth of Ane’s that was loose? Buh-bye. That’s what happens when you are laying in front of the fireplace, toasting your feet… and your brother decides to walk across your face and plants his bare foot in your mouth in the process. Tad’s “help” made the gum bleed quite a bit, and […]

Because I can only borderline FAIL a glucose tolerance test, I got to spend three hours at the hospital lab this morning, buzzed up beyond belief for the first hour on sugar and having my blood drawn on the hour for three hours. Add in the fasting blood sugar draw that was drawn when I […]

Ane is actually still celebrating her birthday. She will take cupcakes to school on Tuesday for her “class party,” and then we have her kid party this Saturday. But on her actual birthday, we gave her a special surprise. Right after church, Tad went over to Grandma’s house, and the Webmaster and I took Ane […]