It got really hot again.  I feel really bad for the guys who are going to be painting in the house today. But there are always creative ways to solve the heat problem.  Like ice cream. The boys and I stopped for ice cream yesterday with the Bean and his mom at Molly Moon’s – […]

Rerun decided he wanted a very specific Plants vs. Zombies graphic novel.  He asked me to see how much it was. I looked up the price on Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and then told him.  But he wanted it NOW, and he was willing to pay a little more, rather than wait 2 days […]

It was one of those moments where I’m not quite sure what I was thinking – maybe it was a “get Rerun out of the house before he bounces through a wall” – but I took him shopping with me.  Ane was invited to a bridal shower, and I went to go pick up a […]

Flying in the face of recent surveys, Ane’s 8th grade English class is just now starting a unit on the Holocaust.  Instead of reading “The Diary of Anne Frank,” as they did in this district when I was in 8th grade, they are reading “The Book Thief.”  As far as I can tell, they are […]