OMG !: This was the look on the kids' faces this a.m. when I told them it was Friday the 13 th . It's so funny - they don't know...

ED NOTE: This is being posted late because Blogger crashed in a big, ugly way on Thursday. They were down from hours and hours, and as of t...

SANDCASTLES: Today at science class the kids got to pick up the objects they molded last week. Annabelle had formed a pair of people (?) l...

WARM FUZZY: I almost deleted this photo, as I was disappointed with how out of focus and fuzzy it is. Then I stopped to think, "Well ...

PEDAL PUSHERS: I had to go to the dentist this afternoon. The office is near Green Lake, so while I was indisposed, Christian and the kids ...

TIPTOE THROUGH THE TULIPS: While Annabelle was at ballet this afternoon, CJ and I took a stroll through the drizzle. In the park next to t...

MERCURY RISING: Fifty years ago today - only 23 days after Yuri Gagarin of the then-Soviet Union became the first person in space - NASA as...