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,…