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 […]

We finally — after almost two years in this house — can say that we’ve used our basketball net. Clint bought a ball a few days ago and, since it was nice out this afternoon, moved my car out of the driveway so we could shoot some hoops. It took a little while […]

It was a good birthday! (Pics from today are here.)
Last night, Clint helped the kids make cards for me. They were so excited that they wanted to know if I could get up at 5 am to open them; I told them “sorry, but no,” and said I’d open them when I […]

We picked up the videos for the JA Dallas project today. Linda told me it was okay to bring Christina along, so we did. She smiled at everybody and waved at a couple of people, and had a blast crawling around the conference room while we talked to Linda about the project.
We asked […]

We got the job!!!
We’re super-excited and can’t wait to get started!
We go in Friday afternoon, to pick up the materials, and then we have ten days or so to go through everything and come up with some sort of game plan. We’ll be checking in with them periodically to make sure we’re on the […]

This cartoon was posted in a thread on the DFW Area Moms forum today.  I don’t know who drew it, but it’s so perfect for us that we may post it permanently on the sidebar of our blog:

Clint will tell you, I usually have pretty mundane dreams — no flying dreams for me: just grocery shopping, playing with kids, and chatting with friends and family.  Occasionally, I’ll have an unusual person show up in my dream: sometimes it’s Buffy, or someone from a movie that we’ve seen, which makes sense — but […]

This afternoon, we went looking at minivans. We need a minivan. We really do.
It’s always sad to say good-bye to a car. At least, it is for me — and Alexander too, apparently. . . . He was excited about looking at vans today, and had fun climbing in and out […]

I haven’t posted in awhile, because we’ve been pretty busy working lately.  It’s a good thing, but annoying when I come check out the blog and see how empty it is!
We got our proposal in to the Linda, the Junior Achievement lady, just before the deadline.  Immediately got an “out of office” automated reply, so […]