As we have the last several years, we rang in the new year (at a kind friendly time of 8:30) at the amazing bash our neighbors up the hill throw each year.  The place was crawling with super excited kids, a collection of noisemakers, those papery blow horns, and dancing…

My newest nephew, born at an enormous eleven pounds has doubled his weight, which makes him a twenty pound eight week old.  That’s enormous, by the way.  Gigantic.  He has rolls and rolls of adorable chub.  His thighs are monstrous, and there is so much voluptuousness in his cheeks that…

There’s not a lot to say other than that these pictures just make me want to scoop her up through the screen.  KaKa is a gem.  

We cooked all day and had an enormous Christmas meal for supper when Dr. Peds came home from work.  Well, actually, I’m sure some families had a bigger feast, but there was still a lot of food, and it was downed faster than I could have ever imagined possible.  The…

Santa brought breakfast:  cereal and bananas.  KaKa is actually eating someone else’s cereal for a late afternoon snack in these pictures, but everyone enjoyed their tiny box of cereal in the morning too:  Fruit Loops, Trix, Lucky Charms, Cocoa Crispies,  all the things no one gets to eat except for…

  After the kidlets opened presents on Christmas morning and played for a bit while we cleaned up the crazy wrapping paper commotion, I started doing a little cooking, and we kicked all the kidlets outside.  We didn’t try to do any offsite sledding this year because it would have…

An astounding number of casualties in the United States armed services during World War II were the result of simple accidents:  in training, in combat, from equipment failure or lack of careful planning.   I learned to beware of the plow grade at the end of my driveway.  It’s large.  And evil.…

  There are two Christmas Eve services at our church, and after much discussion about which one would work better for most of the kids in residence, Auntie Dot and I decided we would aim for the first service at 3:30.  We fed all the little people an early lunch,…

Grandma Robbie accidentally left this hat behind when she visited in December last year, and it has become quite the well-used piece of apparel around here.  Mr. Trouble on Feet calls it his “band hat” and wears it when he plays Christmas marching band.  The hat has a lot of…

Maybe you recall from reading in  years past how even though I sometimes feel inundated by seasonal music, each year there seems to be a certain piece of Christmas music that sticks out for me as I prepare to celebrate.  Sometimes it’s a rare carol that I haven’t come across…