Uno has become quite the tradition for these two on Sunday afternoons while the little ones are napping. Ms. Crazy Preschooler just can’t get enough of the game. She likes the Wild Draw Four cards best. She gets quite gleeful about using them.

When our friends arrived last Tuesday, it was late into the night, past midnight, I think. Early the next morning, I heard giggles in the hallway. I crept out to see who was up. Mr. Perpetual and his pal were sitting on the steps, and he stated, “Look, I lost…

This week some of our favorite friends from residency visited very briefly, stopping for a short overnight stay on their way moving from Wisconsin to Montana. It’s only been just a few months since I moved away from them, but it was so good to see them, and so amazing…

These are last week’s sweet potatoes, still lined up waiting to bake. Everybody in our house loves sweet potatoes, but I just can’t bring myself to run the oven for the 80 minutes it would take to bake these; the weather is so warm. Considering the current forcast, I’m beginning…

She came home from Vacation Bible School on Monday insisting that her name was Agent Celery.

We’ve been struck by some kind of a nasty kid virus. First it hit The Banana, and then yesterday, Mr. Perpetual Mess, and today Ms. Crazy Preschooler was miserable. The virus seems to involve a terrible fever, terrible enough to make kids really quite delerious. We have to keep close…

This is one of my favorite kids ever, next to my own, of course. I have such great memories of taking care of her when she was a toddler. She and Ms. Crazy Preschooler had some of the best times playing together and learning to share together. I love her…

We were visited today by some of our favorite friends ever. All the kids who could run spent the morning chasing each other around the backyard, through the house and up and down the stairs. This flurry of activity was interupted about every ten minutes by ALL of them dispersing…

Hannah had a lot of stranger anxiety during our trip to North Dakota, so a lot of the pictures I took of her with grandparents and great grandparents and godmothers involved her screaming like a maniac, scared senseless with absolute panic in her eyes, and the poor person holding her…

To escape the heat and opressive humidity, we went for a stroll on the lakewalk tonight, where the cool crisp breeze floats across the icy water and chills your skin. Here is what I saw: 1. A flotilla of sailboats having a race. I’m not all that familiar with sailboats,…