Thursday, April 12, 2012

Death and Taxes

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Death. One of the elderly Pillars of the Assembly at our church passed away last month. Her memorial service is Saturday afternoon. I ...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

Dress Rehearsal

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 Tonight was the Dress Rehearsal for the big musical variety show that our local elementary school puts on every spring. Last year, I was ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

A short to-do list

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 So, Ken is off in Ireland for a while.  He's having fun working in the rain, and spending time with his brother-the-professor-in-Cork, ...
Monday, January 23, 2012

On Resolutions

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I'm not usually one to make New Year's Resolutions.  They can only end badly, as far as I'm concerned.  But I like hearing ab...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

12

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 So, Kelly turned 12 on Friday. I think I wrote about all our nefarious sneakiness leading up to the big day, and how she had no idea there...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012

We 'r' so sneeky

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 Before Christmas, Addy, one of Kelly's BFF's came up to me one day and out of the blue said "Kelly is sad that she never gets ...
Sunday, January 01, 2012

More Snow

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 Well, it's still pretty green around my parents' house, but there have been a few pretty rainy nights. So, we took the opportunity...

Snow!

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 The first day in Canada, the kids were all gung-ho to play in the snow. Unfortunately, it was pushing 10C (50F).  Even though there had be...
Saturday, December 31, 2011

For the Birds

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 The weather has been pretty nice here.  Kind of icky at night, but pretty sweet during the days. I've been watching the birds go nuts ...
Thursday, December 29, 2011

Green Christmas

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 Greetings from Canada. After a much-worried-over, yet rather uneventful drive, we made it to my folks' place in the middle of the afte...