We’ve been telling the kids, for quite some time now, that we want to take them somewhere for a weekend trip, to get away and probably to stay in a hotel.  Things being what they are, we’ve just been too busy to do it.  Well, Clint decided we’ve been talking about it long enough, and […]

Angelina lost her second tooth Tuesday!  She came in and woke me up, and was trying to show me her tooth, but I was so tired that I had a very hard time figuring out what was going on.  Finally, I figured it out and jumped up out of bed.  She told me that she […]

Del and Colleen have this hanging on the wall in their living room. I’d like it hanging in ours, as well:
 
Desiderata
– written by Max Ehrmann in the 1920s –
Not “Found in Old St. Paul’s Church”!
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,
and remember what peace there may be in silence.
As far as possible, without […]

Scanned a LOT of things for Kelly today. Her website is coming along really nicely, and she’s getting really excited about it! : )
Christina fell asleep at 2:30, so I didn’t get the kids until almost four. They were on the playground, and they wanted to know if Miss Effie had seen […]

Took Alexander to breakfast at the Allen Cafe this morning. He still remembers the last time we were there, a year ago, when Clint accidentally put syrup on his Mickey Mouse pancake, instead of powdered sugar. (The waitress that time was super nice, and she personally made him a new pancake, free of […]

Angelina is camping with her Dad and the Indian Princesses this weekend, so Alexander spent the night at Timothy’s last night. (He did that the very first time she went camping, so it’s become tradition now.) They went swimming today, and we picked him up around 6pm; he was exhausted, but said that […]

Clint was up until 3:45 this morning, working on something on the computer.
Turns out that was a good thing, because that’s when the the tornado sirens went off, and they weren’t loud enough to wake me! I was dreaming about a strange noise, and when Clint woke me up I was very confused: […]

Finally got a shower this morning, then put Christina down for her nap; she slept almost two hours, so she was pretty tired. Took her for a walk in the stroller when she woke up. We walked around the block, through our neighborhood, then stopped home to pick up a drink and our […]

Had another run-in with Effie this afternoon.
It started off fine: We got to the school to pick up the kids, and I let Christina walk around the classroom holding just my fingers; Alexander wanted to try, so I let him walk her around the room once; A few minutes later, the kids lined […]

A man knocked on our door and asked if we were interested in having our limbs trimmed. He offered a price that we couldn’t refuse, so we took him up on it. He did a nice job, so we decided to have him do the rest of the trees as well; he […]