Friday Q & A

(This is more like a “Friday Evening” Q & A since I forgot to schedule it to post while Elle and I were gone to camp. We just got home a few hours ago and wow, do I ever have a bunch to say about that… …another time and another day because although it was…

my nightstand

When I mentioned in my “summer goals” post last week that sometimes I bite off more than I can chew it’s because things like this nightstand exist in my life. I put one book on top of another and tell myself “I must read that right away!” And then it sits there getting dusty. It’s…

angel

Last week Lucy gave us a good scare. She started throwing her signature tantrums again in full force. And anyone who knows Lucy knows she’s got more “tantrum talent” in her pinky finger than most of us have in a lifetime. She angrily swatted away people who were kind to her or who were trying…

SNOW

Ok, so there are some drawbacks to living in the desert too. One of them is that we don’t get snow. And sometimes in the winter you just crave it a little. Most days of our winter break Max would check the weather and claim it was coming. We were gonna get it…just a trace…

Olympics wrap-up

Olympics wrap-up

Ok, enough blabbing about the Olympics. I promise to be done after this. But I’ve got to write this all down before it fades since it was the trip of a lifetime for us.I loved the Olympic venues. I loved the dancing water show in front of the Water Cube.I loved how everything looked all…

Mirror Land

There’s this magical land far away called “Mirror Land.” In this land, there’s this family called the “Spunks” that is exactly like ours. A mom, a dad, one boy and four crazy girls. The weird thing is that not only is this family just like ours on paper, but they look exactly like us too….