Sunday

Don’t know if you could hear it from where you are, but our Australian family arrived on Friday morning, and it’s been a lot of noisy fun since they arrived. The first day we only had about two hours with everyone awake simultaneously; the rest of the afternoon the cousins did their best sleeping koala …

Too Late

Nearly every day, Hot Wheels runs the numbers. “How much money do we have? If we sell our house AND our Mazda 5, can we buy a Ferrari?” He questions. He plots. He ruminates. Nearly every day. So yesterday we’re strolling the neighborhood together and we pass a red convertible. “That’s a nice Miata,” he says, …

Party Down

So every June we have a party for Tom’s birthday. He loves his birthday – well, any excuse to have a party, frankly. Plus it’s a perfect chance to have our friends over to catch up with Gini and Craig while they’re visiting. After a cold grey week, we were all pleasantly surprised to see …

Random Notes

I basically live in a cabaret. Someone is always bursting into random singing or dancing around here, so let’s kick things off with the refrains from two of the songs my kids have sung to me over the last two days. “Where is the guy with the crazy lights?” and “I have an odd way …