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 […]

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 […]

1) Christina walked, holding just my fingertips, for the first time this morning! She’s been using her push-walker for a couple of weeks now, but this is the first time she’s grabbed my hands and just taken off. She was so excited about it that she squealed!
2) We took Christina […]

The Carson and Barnes circus, that is. Barnum and Bailey it isn’t — but to me, that’s a good thing.
I was never really crazy about circuses. It may be because I still remember going to a Shriner’s circus when I was little, and seeing a man fall off the high-wire. It wasn’t […]