Peter and Margaret in the kitchen

The Boss: Marge the Sarge

A brief exchange with Margaret this evening:
Margaret: “Mom, you took off your shoes wrong.”
Me: “What?”
Margaret: “Yeah, they’re crooked.”
She proceeded to straighten my mis-aligned shoes and I started to wonder whether I should call in the obsessive-compulsive specialists or be glad to have a detail-oriented, conscientious child to counter all those around here who aren’t! Hmmmm.
God [...]

Self-Portrait

Okay, this doesn’t have to do with our family at all, except to make me feel that maybe our homeschool art program could be doing more. I was just amazed by this video and had to post it here.

Quiet Hello from Peter

Why we have been so busy

Sorry that we have not written in the last ten days or so. This has been a really busy time for us. The girls are up north with Grandma (Omi) and Grandpa (Grampy) so that the rest of us can do some spring cleaning. Here’s Alex with a sample of what we’ve [...]

Eclipse

Here are some photos taken from the Bartholomew observation deck of tonight’s lunar eclipse, which is still going on as of this writing. The neighbor across the street (our mayor) came out while I was taking these to mention that the flash was probably not doing much good.

Surprise! Happy Birthday, Grammy!

For her birthday present this year, Grammy got a surprise visit and finally got to meet Peter!  What a wonderful trip.

Lawyer joke

Three engineers and three lawyers are traveling to a conference on the train. The lawyers all go and buy a ticket each from the ticket booth. Then [...]

Drooly kisses for Valentine’s Day

Kisses and hugs to everyone out there! Click to enlarge for the full, wet, drooly effect (but try to refrain from kissing your monitor please!). I know I can’t stop kissing him under that chin in person. Happy Valentine’s Day!

Cuties

Taken today.