Jack

  • A Day in the Life

    Today I had to take the Craigerator to the urgent care, as he has been wheezing something fierce. He’s bee bopping around as usual, pink cheeked and perky, and also has a high…

  • Kids are Exhausting and Cute

    *Edited to add pictures* Last night we had Jack’s tenth birthday party.  We had a Nerf war in the park, followed by a movie projected on a sheet in our backyard.  Ten 10…

  • Guitar Fixed! And Other News

    I’m not sure if I shared here, but somehow the neck of my guitar was broken . . . by children, no doubt. It’s a cheap guitar and I don’t play anywhere but…

  • A French Quarter Story

    509 Saint Croix Street* – there we are. I stand in a lather of indecision on the damp, grotty cobbled street, while my six and eight year old boys fiddle and jangle their…

  • Drizzly Zoo Trip

    Faced with the prospect of a rainy Saturday with the kids by myself, I contemplated staying home – them destroying the house, fighting, bouncing off the walls.  I contemplated the aquarium – eleventy…