Last year our cousins Covin and Jenna got an “Elf on the Shelf.” Maybe he was around earlier, we’re not sure. We are sure that last year was when their elf stepped it up. We heard that one day he was fishing in their toilet… and then one day the…
Way back when, when we were debating baby names, we settled pretty quickly on Jacob and Nathaniel. Though James did make a run at “Sergio.” We’d go get coffee and he’d give the cashier his proposed baby name and then I’d here “Double latte for Sergio?” And he’d look at…
I’m embarrassed to admit or repeat the things that I have exclaimed at my two vertically-challenged housemates this year. I had no idea I would ever have to say such things. I will absolutely not repeat them here… needless to say, the most compromising exclamations most certainly occur at bath…
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…