I don’t get very many Christmas letters anymore. I suppose that with email and social networks they are becoming a thing of the past. But in my generation there are still people who don’t have computers or who have them, but seldom use them. So I...

Okay, you get two posts for the price of one today, because while I was doing the breakfast dishes Babe decided to play with her yogurt box and I couldn't resist taking pictures. I paid $11 dollars for her new scratching post in hopes that it would...

Do you really want to know how many things can go wrong on a single day at school? Probably not. So let me just say that after twelve I stopped counting. J The Christmas Party was the highlight of our day and thankfully went quite well. I had lots of...

Yesterday we finished our parent gifts. The children made photo frames last week and I put their Christmas photos in them. Yesterday they decorated paper lunch sacks with tree cutouts and stickers. I folded the tops over, punched a hole in them and...

  (Me, pregnant with Karen. John and Mom.)   I am cautiously optimistic this morning. John’s surgery went well and he has started the process of recovery. Any of you who have had any sort of surgery know that the next few weeks and months are...