AAAH : CJ's first utterance this morning upon heading downstairs - "Ah, I think I'll have a massage with breakfast. Yeah....

GRANTED AN AUDIENCE: This morning was one of those rare and much-appreciated opportunities to sit in on Bee's ballet class. It was a p...

UNDER A SPELL: We started the morning by test driving an educational computer game I bought months ago. "Mrs. Flinkster's Spelling...

LAKE LOOP: First thing out of the gate, we headed for Green Lake. It has been a long while since we did the round-the-lake loop. The kids h...

MEMORIAL DAY: For kids in a standard school, today represents the Memorial Day holiday - a harbinger of summer vacation. No such luck for t...

IGNOBLE RETURN: Today, after missing the past two weeks (one due to our Florida trip, the other due to the teacher's absence), the kids...

MAIN STREET USA: This morning we needed more mineral oil for conditioning our new butcher block counter top . I knew the hardware store in M...