I haven’t been able to read nearly as much as I would like over the past few months, but here are some recent favorites: Grown Up Books Where Did you Go Bernadette by Maria Semple.  I absolutely loved this book.  It would be included on my list of most favorite and…

It’s been quiet here, because we’ve had a doozy of a time these last few weeks.  For example, last week while I was at choir rehearsal, my van was vandalized in the parking lot.  The Bad Guy broke the driver’s side door window, and of course the weather was headed…

OK, so I might be two full weeks behind, but here are some pictures from our Christmas Day sledding extravaganza.  

Big Cousin is helping Little Cousin make a bracelet.  The little cousin is wearing hand-me-down pajamas that, a decade ago, were the big cousin’s prize for successful potty training.  She and I both have vivid memories of making a special trip to Wausau, Wisconsin, to pick those pajamas out at…

Everyone was extraordinarily excited to meet Baby Elizabeth for the first time at Christmas .  The house was crazy, very crazy, but at the last minute I did manage to sneak away and snap just a few photographs before she was strapped into her carseat for the long journey back home.…

So much was going on the day of YaYa’s birthday that it was practically ridiculous!  Because we had NINE KIDS staying at our house, and it was all degrees of a lovely mayhem, we skipped the annual tradition of breakfast in the bathtub.  I know.  So sad!  But NINE KIDS were…

My driver’s license expired on my birthday, and I forgot about it in the craziness of December.  The Tuesday before Christmas I had a free morning, and I knew that I had better get to the driver’s license exam office to get a new license right away.  I was prepared for…

I’ve pretty much absolutely given up the notion that I’ll ever have a calm looking picturesque Christmas card where everyone is standing still and smiling.  It’s Ok because these kidlets never ever stand still and smile, especially when they are together.  I thought you might enjoy these outtakes that did…

Perhaps you have read Julia Donaldson’s Stickman.  But then again, maybe you have not, because although her books are very popular in Great Britain, they are not as well known here in the United States.  Auntie Dot actually brought our first Julia Donaldson picture book, The Smartest Giant in Town to…

  Last Wednesday morning it snowed!  It was our first significant snow for the year, which we were all very excited about.  However, it made the short trip down the hill to school for the morning concert not so short!  It was good that I allowed plenty of extra time…