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Word Picture: A Perfect Night in Alaska
One memory has been particularly vivid to me today. I’m not entirely certain why this memory surfaced and has been captivating me every spare moment of the day, except that someone mentioned how different all of the United States must be from each other. Sometimes I think it really does take someone who has not had the ‘normal’ childhood to ( Read more... ) -
Kindergarten is when they turn into comedians?
My son recently has taken a huge liking to telling jokes. He collects them and has quite an impressive selection of them memorized for a not-quite-six-year-old ( Read more... ) -
Happy 2011!
So many things have happened in the past six months that I wouldn’t know where to begin if I tried to list all of them. Instead, I’ll hit the high points ( Read more... ) -
Life Update
I'll try and keep this brief, as I'm supposed to make snacks for a very demanding five year old next. ;-)
Family Update:- My parents visited us for about a month. It was great to see them! They left earlier this week to go home. (It never seems like there's enough time to visit.)
- The boy got his first pair of glasses. We've never had the same ( Read more... )
- My parents visited us for about a month. It was great to see them! They left earlier this week to go home. (It never seems like there's enough time to visit.)
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My Family: An Update
Wow, what a week at work! It’s been insanely busy. It was so busy they stopped giving me new things to do and just let me focus on my old stuff. Of course, it’s never that simple. Even when I’ve only got the old stuff, there’s still new things being added to it -- just not completely new things! The week before was almost as bad. As a matter ( Read more... ) -
Happily Typing Away on My New Computer
I've been wanting a new computer for quite some time now. I love gadgets! Anything electronic and new, I want. It's an automatic reaction for me. Fortunately, in recent years it hasn't been nearly so bad. I have more important things to worry about now, I guess. Having a child will do that to you ( Read more... ) -
Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy on the Same Day?
Today was a big day for my little section of the Dane family. There are three of us in this group: myself, my husband, and our four year old son. Today was Christmas Day. My husband and I awoke to the sound of our son shouting from the living room for Dada to come help him with the TV. Yes, you read that correctly, our four year old bypassed ( Read more... )