This year we headed out to visit the car show. Ansel’s all about spotting different cars on the road, coloring pictures of cars, and reading...

Ollie was in the Geography Bee at his school the other day. It was an intense experience. Ten kids from the 4th and 5th grade were chosen ba...

Around here, our year started off like this: We all had a legit flu virus and during those days I thanked the universe for ibuprofen and ace...

The other day I almost bought a sweater that was called “the 1988 rollback.”  The sandals my niece wore to a recent school dance were practi...

This month’s sound track has been Mannheim Steamroller’s first Christmas album. The kids have it on every time they play downstairs. As such...

This year the kids were super excited to buy our Christmas tree. They were very specific about height, needle quality, and color. They were ...

A couple of years after we moved into our house, Jess mentioned that he thought it’d be fun to host Thanksgiving. I didn’t have as much exci...

Most of us don’t use the giblets that come with a turkey. Am I right? The recipe I was using said to pull out the giblet packet and discard....

Once daylight savings hits and the nights get darker and darker, I start to anticipate how we can keep those dark days from seeping into our...

The wild park around our house has been put up for a possible city project to make the place into a organized park with soccer fields, tenni...