“One day, I was in the forest. And there was a volcano. And it had hot lava. But no fire. Just lava” “One day, I was at our old house and there was a monster. On the roof. And it was yellow. And this (puts his fingers together to indicate a rather small monster) big. [...]

About a month ago, Three spent the weekend illustrating to us that he now has a full understanding of the word ‘Freakin’. Freakin’ snow. Freakin’ bedtime. Freakin’ chicken for dinner? Really Mama? I want freakin’ pasta!’ It went on, and on. We played the whole thing down, and by mid-day Monday he has lost interest [...]

I haven’t been feeling the whole Christmas thing this year. I know that part of that is the Christmas Creep the retailers impose on us. When Christmas trees start appearing in stores in September I totally roll my eyes. By October, I’m sort of intrugied and start to think of the season ahead, and by [...]

Anyone who knows me, knows that I tend to avoid Halloween like the plague. I think in the 6 years we were at the condo, we handed out candy once. And that was because our friend was living with us at the time and he wanted to hand out candy. But now I have a [...]

For as long as I can remember, long before the husband and I were even anywhere close to actually getting married and having kids, I have sworn up and down that my child was not going to play soccer. Baseball, sure. But soccer, no. So you can imagine my surprise that it took a mere [...]