Taking a cue from her big brother, The Banana snatched a banana off the edge of the kitchen counter today when I had my head turned east rather than west. I hadn’t heard from her for several minutes, and was just realizing things had been mysteriously quiet, when Sarah came…

It’s cold. It is so cold here, in fact, that I actually turned up my thermostat four degrees to compensate for the negative 60 degree windchill the west side of our house is battling. Needless to say, we are cooped up inside. And to make matters all the more crazy,…