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Although without the wind  it wasn’t all that much colder than it has frequently been the past few weeks, we spent today,  the first of our “cold day” vacation from school doing fun tricks, like throwing the water we used to boil noodles for lunch out the door to watch…

The Legos have been getting a good workout over Christmas vacation and now our extended “cold vacation” . . .  an extemporaneous three day weekend that came about when the governor of Minnesota declared all schools closed tomorrow because of cold weather.  These creations are the brainchild of YaYa, but…

  I’m ridiculously slow about posting YaYa’s birthday celebration, but here it is one week later. YaYa’s first request regarding her twelfth birthday was that she would be allowed to sleep in as long as possible.  Her second request was sunny side eggs for breakfast.  Dr. Peds is usually the…

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.…