What is more fun than a baseball game over spring break?  Not much! Unfortunately, the Mariners were traveling and didn’t get back until Friday, so we really didn’t get to take advantage of spring break to go to a midweek game.  Oh well. It was our first game of the season, though, and we kicked […]

Why oh why do teachers assign homework over spring break?  It has been like pulling teeth to get the boys to do any of their work. Thumper doesn’t have homework, of course, but Rerun has a math packet of worksheets that he has to complete, and Tad has a history project that is a combination […]

This week is spring break.  Which means that I’m going to get exactly nothing done in an attempt to keep these four monkeys out of trouble. And since Tad has a burning desire for a “relaxing vacation,” it also means that I must keep them entertained.  The boys, anyway.  Ane has her own set of […]

Well, I’ll say this…. life with Rerun is never boring. We had gone shoe shopping for Tad (after discovering that he walked/ran a 5K in a pair of shoes that had HOLES worn through the soles), and worked very hard on convincing him that new shoes were not a cause for tears.  The salesguy was […]