Spring is slowly coming to the frozen north. This time of year is actually frightfully ugly as the dingy grey snow melts uncovering all of t...

Guess who decided she needed to jump on the Harry Potter bandwagon? Sophie just finished the first book. Max is on book #6. He told me he h...

I don't usually do a lot to celebrate St. Patrick's Day. We have a bit of Irish in us somewhere, but I did not grow up celebrating t...

I was asked to bring some guacamole to the primary board meeting on Friday night. Guacamole may be my all-time favorite food (gasp! even m...

Just a note. A week has past with no posts - sorry about that. I try and keep my blog updated with positive, fun things and limit the amou...

Sophie-loo-who is about to lose a front tooth. There is much speculation as to when and where this event may occur and much advice being gi...

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It's been raining, it's been snowing, there was a brief moment of hail and a whole lot of fog. There is no sign of spring judging b...

On Friday, the kids had no school - I'm not sure why. Needing to get out of the house, we loaded up the car and took off for the librar...

Every day this week, the kids have come home from school, thrown their backpacks in the front door and headed out to play. The weather has ...

Not much going on around here this week. Sophie celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday at school: Calvin has been feeling a bit under the wea...

Sophie has taken to dressing in various tones of one color. This was a purple day. I think it's rather efficient of her. She is also ...

This is what it looked like on Thursday morning - bright and clear. By that afternoon, we had lots of new snow and relatively nice weather w...