Knowing that I was going to spend at least 3 hours after getting the kids in bed doing this for the art show… Nate disappered to 7-11 and came back with something to get me through.         Does he know me or what?  :)

I didn't say a word… just posted this on the door out to the garage and told one of the kids I'd put up a notice.   The basement was spotless by bedtime.  :)

Every once in a while we make it to K with enough time for Meg to get out and play with the kids before the teacher blows the whistle to start school.  She thinks it's the best thing ever.       Emma and Meg dancing in the kitchen.   Emma helped Meg prepare and present…

Part of Carter's homework assignment was to write the word "tree" by a picture of the tree… and as I sat listening to him sound it out he kept saying "ch… ch… what makes the "ch" sound?"  I was so confused, and told him tree started with the letter T.   He looked at me…

   Although there were moments (like trying to make it down the little hill to the lift the first time) that I wondered if we were crazy, Nate had more faith in all of us and we had a wonderful time night skiing for the kids' first time skiing (and my first time in I…

End of February trip to the zoo with the littles:   A quick after-school trip to the planetarium to see a NASA exhibit on the new rocket that was there for a couple of days: (They printed out these cool pics of the kids that they just loved.)   Emma and Meg have been best…

Nate knows how to build a serious fort!  In the middle of the fort building, I kept hearing things in the garage that made me poke my head in there wondering what on earth was going on – and every time he would say, "Don't question my methods." 🙂   And we had a fun…

Carter had me text this pic to Nate with the message,  "Dad look at my sweet turns!"   The name of the game (his creation, not mine) was to take corners tilted as far as he could go without tipping.  It led to a few crashes, but I was suprised at how many times he…

Imagination can take you anywhere…   can you see all the chalk on those pants?!   Neither this picture nor the next were posed… I just caught Carter "relaxing on the boat" and Meg imitating him.  

I came across this gem of a recent [unfinished] short story by a local young author:   I would give a lot of money to know what inspired both the original and modified version of this.  :)