• Thoughts on Careers

    This afternoon Sarah was riding with my husband to the retail section of town (again . . . my husband just can’t seem to stay out of the retail section). In the car they were having some great conversation. Sarah was asking all kinds of thought provoking questions (or so…

  • First Day of Year Six

    Happy Birthday Sarah! The Banana woke the birthday girl up long before the crack of dawn. We watched a litlte episode of Old School Sesame Street (a new and terrific DVD that Gregory acquired yesterday . . . all episodes from before we were born, and hilarious ones at that.…

  • Winter Forest

    Because I was feeling a little cooped up today, after The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants woke up from their nap, I decided to take them for a sled walk. We walked down to one of our favorite hiking trails, and into the forest for a short while. It was…

  • Christmas

    In Gregory’s family there was the tradition of siblings sleeping under the Christmas tree and playing Uno (or HUNO, as Mr. Sneaky Pants refers to it) together into the late hours of the night during the Christmas season. Sarah heard about it, so we told her that she and Mr.…

  • Tuperware Monocular

    Mr. Sneaky Pants searches for “the little guy” in the laptop. Side note: “The Little Guy” is a dancing little thumbnail icon that appears when my husband runs his anti-virus software.

  • Sledding with Friends

    We zipped down the street and up the hill to do a little sledding with our friends who live at the top of the hill yesterday afternoon when Sarah got home from school. Our friends have a perfect preschool-sized hill in their yard, and glee was beheld by all as…

  • Drip

    We had freezing rain last night, snow this morning, and more snow is on the way tonight, or so they say. Water was dripping off the roof of the house onto this bush outside our living room window this afternoon, so I had to hop into my snow boots and…

  • Random Notions

    1. Last Wednesday we went caroling at a nursing home with a group of people from our church. It was a complete blast. Not only did we get to ride to the nursing home on a school bus (BIG news for Mr. Sneaky Pants), I was just overjoyed to be…