Yesterday was Obachan’s birthday, but in the current situation, having a party was a little hard.  Just a little. So we arranged to all be with her at the nursing home, talking with her in shifts.  But she did get a cake. We all got to say hello through a big folding glass screen, but […]

We bought the Honda Odyssey in June 2006.  I went digging through my files and found the pictures from the day we bought it.  The first real drive we took with it was just a couple of days later, when we drove over to Fort Casey (via the ferry to Whidbey Island) with Ane and […]

Well, we finally did it!  We finally found and bought a new-to-us minivan!  We traded in our Honda Odyssey yesterday, since it needs a new transmission and it was just easier to let the dealership take it. Easier for us, anyway.  For Tad, not so much. We had owned this minivan since just before Tad’s […]

Well, we’re still waiting for the results of blood draw #1 to come back, but it was time for blood draw #2 to happen. Rerun, as always, was a champ about it (and not nearly as comically dramatic, which was disappointing). There’s supposed to be a third blood draw, but with school starting online this […]