He’s With the Band.

Couldn’t you just eat him with a spoon?

Just enjoying a beautiful day last week…he came in covered in chalk! (He only did a few of the drawings though; his brothers were making some kind of Star Wars trap out of chalk on the back patio.)

My Nephew is Cooler Than Your Nephew

My brother just emailed me this picture of my nephew Will a couple of days ago with the following message:
Michael Scott, this one’s for you…

Are they the coolest parents ever or what?

Happiness Is…

…a long drive by yourself. With three kids, uninterrupted time alone in the car has become precious to me, so you’ll understand why I so enjoyed this weekend!
On Friday night, I set off for Effingham for my SIL Andrea’s baby shower (pictures later in this post!). I sadly kissed my kids and husband [...]

He Likes to Read. What Can I Say.

I know that someday, I’ll miss picking up all of these books after him. I know that. But I can’t help but be the teensy-tiniest bit annoyed when I see that he’s gotten half the books off the shelf again. He does this multiple times a day some days.
But he really, really [...]

Deleted Scenes from “The Empire Strikes Back”

What? You didn’t know that there were deleted scenes floating around?
 
Many thanks to my husband for thinking of this idea!

Trick or Treat! The 2009 Edition.

What a fun night! Halloween* has become one of the nights of the year I most look forward to with our kids…it’s just such a fun evening for all of us, and we get to enjoy it with neighbors and my family, too.
The night started off like this:
But it got much, much better.
We had [...]

Wordless Wednesday: First Chess Lesson

with thanks to Suzanne for the idea!

Pumpkins

One of the first posts I ever wrote on my blog was about how pumpkin carving started mysteriously falling under my responsibility. In my house growing up, my dad took care of this, so I assumed that Matt would be the one pulling guts out of pumpkins, but noooo. The last three years [...]

What H1N1 Looks Like

(borrowing that title, unfortunately, from Robin, who has already been through what I’m just starting!)
Yep. Luke’s got it.

I just got an email from his teacher saying that more than half of the kids in his class are home sick today. Not surprising after Luke came home from school on Tuesday and told me [...]

Because the Beginning of “Finding Nemo” Is Kinda Scary.

It’s a sick day here today…after feeling like we’d dodged a bullet when Bennett’s fever lasted less than 8 hours and produced no other symptoms (Tuesday night to Wednesday morning), Luke woke up at 5:45 today feeling warm and coughing a little. Not good.