Here is my husband, making the driveway bigger in hope that I will be able to refrain from scraping the sides of the car against the ice encrusted snowbanks.    

  "Pushing the buttons,"  a very coveted activity around here, kept The Banana busy for at least 20 minutes this morning.  Mr. Sneaky Pants was working on painting a special book for his preschool teacher and was using all the table space in the office.  The Banana was not happy…

It is a longstanding tradition in the family of Dr. Peds to make gingerbread houses during Christmas vacation, and give them away to people in the church and community.  It is one of my favorite family activities; I've loved it ever since I was included the first Christmas we were…

   New Years Eve was filled with a gaggle of children 8 and under . . . the best party of the year. Our friends from up the street threw another magnificent New Years Party last night.  It started at 6:00.  Midnight was at 8:30.  We were home, tucked into…

Of course, I love these images of my Grandma Jan.  I had the best time visiting her all afternoon on the third day of the Christmas blizzard.  I have more pictures, but I couldn't wait to share these.  Grandma Jan is nocturnal and really hates sunlight, so I was excited…

  He was giving my grandmother a great deal of grief.  He has a penchant for mischeviousness.     

Disgusted. More Disgusted. She didn't want her picture taken because she was up all night coughing with a bad cold and hadn't curled her hair.  I'm a pest. And the light was perfect.   Someday she'll just smile and twinkle into my camera lens EVEN if she's feeling crumby.  I…

Because of the Great Christmas Blizzard, there were a lot of family members I missed seeing in North Dakota:  my cousins, my aunts and uncles, and some friends too.  On top of that, I was sick, sick, SICK!  A lot of the time I didn't feel up to even picking…

The luggage that we need to cram into the car is taking up 1/3 of the floor space in our family room.  The cat has a very clean litter box, three bowls of food and two bowls of water.  The fish is munching on food.  The Christmas paraphanelia coming with…

To keep little hands busy while I was running around getting ready for my concert last Friday, I set the kidlets up with some cloves and oranges.  They started poking cloves into the oranges, and I got my hair curled. (I only do that about six times a year, for…