Now that we're fully into November, and people are starting to be more outspoken about the number of days until Christmas, all the usual Christmas memes are starting to appear on Facebook. But this year, I saw several friends with…
A couple of years ago, I did a thankful tree with the boys for the month of November. Basically, we made hand cutouts each day on orange and yellow paper and wrote something we were thankful for and then taped…
This evening, we'll be undertaking one of my favorite family crafts -- carving pumpkins. This is probably, hands down, the best part of October for me. I mean, okay, dressing up, trick or treating, those are kind of fun. But…
Tomorrow our family will make their annual pilgrimage to the local pumpkin patch for some gourds to decorate the home. It's always a fun time with friends from church filled with kettle corn and funnel cakes and mazes and just…
My eldest son started asking about ice skating sometime during the summer. I'm not sure exactly when. But, regardless, there was a day when it worked out for my hubby to take him to open skate, just the two of…
Since the Pope came to D.C. this week, my husband wasn't in a rush to sit in the worse-than-usual traffic as people headed downtown to see him. So he planned to take a couple of days off and avoid the…
My eldest is hitting the age when I really want to get him started on some of the fun intro to programming projects at Code.org. Of course, this means he needs easy access to a computer. One where he can…
You might have seen this photo over here on the left on Facebook on Monday. This is me with a hot-off-the-presses copy of DiAnnMills' latest novel Deadlock. And if you look at that link, you'll see that it's not yet…
Last weekend, my husband and I went to see Tim Hawkins live as a delayed anniversary outing. We've enjoyed seeing comedians together before, though I say that like we go a lot. We don't. We've been to see Brian Regan…
We never really stopped school for the summer this year. We scaled back. A lot. But there were very few weeks where no school got done. It has, so far, made transitioning back into our normal schedule much less painful…