Last year, you might remember, I was planning the All-Green Festivities , which left little room for craftiness because I was busy buying be...

Someone was unhappy about not being allowed to stay up to watch the Oscars. And left a quiet, but emphatic, protest outside our bedroom door...

A. announced today that he had figured out four reasons there couldn't be aliens on Earth: 1. Aliens can't survive with air. 2. Noth...

on my other blog .

...I would buy the boys each one of these (click on the picture to see the website). Aren't they great? A penguin for Ben, and maybe a l...

The Peggster's doing a better job than I at keeping up with this. I do make up a list of things to be grateful for every night before I...

When A. was a baby, I noticed a tendency to guess what kind of children the babies would turn into. There was always a lot of speculation on...

Found Grace in Small Things via Sarah's blog. I have a scene from about 13 years ago firmly embedded in my memory. A little backstory: ...

Or has Obama gotten, like, 10 times hotter since he became President?

From www.punditkitchen.com I'm quite happy he's Mr. President now and I know he's got a lot of important work to do, but what ma...

It's Snowing by A. it's snowing it's snowing evereebudy is playing in the snow and its fun I wish I can but I cant I have wi...

So I get to the ER early this morning and feel kind of guilty because the combination of writhing around, pacing and grimacing in the waitin...

I found this great Japanese import place, Ichiban Kan , near my office, thanks to Gwendomama . My favorite aisle is the stationary aisle, wh...

We have been busy reading the Boxcar Children mysteries with A. Fortunately, and unlike the Magic Treehouse series, there are tens of tho...

Once A. was born, I did a pretty good job of removing expletives from my language. I replaced some of them with "Crap!" which is, ...

Me: Hey, if we invite Ryan to Ben's b-day party (in March), then his older brother Kyle can come too and you'll have a friend to pla...

Oh, I suppose I'm a little late. I got some great Christmas gifts. I got a flat screen monitor to replace the dinosaur cathode-ray monit...

A. loves maps. Fortunately, in first grade each student has to make a map of each continent in the world. Once he's done with a continen...

Has it been a week already? Geez. We're leaving for AZ in the morning. Totally snuck up on me. I made the reservations earlier this mont...

I've been cheating on my blog with Facebook. I'm sorry. Here's a video of Ben's part in the Christmas play. You can't un...