• Beach 2016

    All three boys are napping – the big boys just requested a nap, and we put them in our bed.  It’s kind of amazing.  We had a long morning swimming and the sun…

  • Weekend Rain

    I sit on my couch, surrounded by sick and napping children, rain pattering on the roof, the radio playing low.  I want to write a typical post, a “Day in the Life” of…

  • 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…

  • Summer “Break”

    Summer ‘vacation’ is so different as a working parent!  Ugh, 3 months to find something for the kids to do each week, 3 months of slight guilt that they aren’t getting any lazy…

  • Memorial Day Weekend

    We had a MDW that was action packed and also leisurely.  Since the kids have short attention spans, all of our “action” was relatively short, punctuated with long spans of lounging.  On Saturday,…