Well, we certainly labored this weekend, and my poor aching back is the proof. In the spirit of getting daughter ready for her big entrance into seventh grade, we finally convinced her (note that WE had to convince HER) that a wallpaper pattern of chubby hippos and cartoon birds was simply not appropriate for [...]
As expected, daughter has taken the young stray under her wing and is spoiling him rotten. I have told her she can’t let him loose in the house until we’ve gotten him really checked out, but he can come inside in the carrier. So she carried him around with her in the house all [...]
We interrupt this blog for some intensive and focused bragging on my daughter, who’s been having a bang-up year so far, as evinced by the following:
1) She made honor roll this term, for the first time in her whole elementary school career.
2) She achieved a “self manager” badge, which is actually surprisingly [...]
The family and I are driving to Tillamook tomorrow morning on important business, namely buying more shingles for this shed project at a deep deep discount. You may be wondering why I’m still awake at 1 a.m. when I need to hit the road at 7 a.m. Well, it’s because daughter stayed up until [...]