My polling turned up two pirate books… which I guess is what you get when you poll pirates. Did I ever tell you the story of the time 9 or 10 of us girls dressed-up as pirates and floated down the Truckee river? I’m fairly certain the bachelorette wore an…
We’re three days into the book blog of 2013 and it’s really picking-up steam. The anticipation builds all day until the boys actually forgot to demand treats after dinner tonight, rushing to bath time as the final hurdle before opening the secret book bag. Before our story synopsis, a little…
The second book in our series is a little French number titled Press Here by Herve Tullet. I was intrigued by the idea of this interactive book and bought it out of curiosity. Fortunately, it didn’t disappoint. There was once a time, back when Nate was a baby, that Jacob…
Somehow I got this idea while trolling around on the internet… it might have been the Facebook, it might have been the Pinterest. The premise? Buy 25 new kids books, wrap each one, and then read one every day as we count down to Christmas. It appealed to me for…
Jakey has always been a fiend for logistics. Around this time last year I remember him proposing a plan where we were supposed to take him hunting with Granddad and “Grandma will watch Nake. Nake is too little for hunting, right?” (shaking his head matter-of-factly). Sometimes he tells me how…
The phases around here go so fast I can hardly keep up. There were the days of Nate clearing his throat. Then the two weeks of stuttering, “wh-wh-wh-wh-wh-where Jakey go?” I resisted googling childhood stuttering for as long as I could. Luckily it’s passed. One day I noticed that “Nake”…
Dear Santa, I’ve been thinking about what I’d like for Christmas and here is the list. I want a lot of things. A boiling water maker to make stew and everything with hot water A real pirate ship high to the clouds A bike that shoots puffs of smoke out…
Before Jakey’s third birthday he was relentless about one thing: a Jeep. Grandma and Granddad got him a monster-truck-like Jeep from the flea market. I bought him a little preschooler remote control Jeep. He opened them all with feigned enthusiasm. Honestly. You could practically hear the “eh” in his little two-year-old…
We’re always quizzing our kids. I’m convinced it makes them smarter. Or at least passes the time on long car rides without investing in a fancy in-car DVD player. We test them a lot on flags. There is no logic as to the subjects of these pop quizzes. Two weekends…
I think I’ve let three weeks go by without commemorating the end of our 4 pound bottle of ketchup. 64 ounces… dusted. I don’t know how I could let such a momentous occasion pass by. Looks like that bottle lasted us five months, which means we’re averaging about a pound…