Mardi Gras masks! You'll have to pardon this post, because I am ending up the week with a cold and three sick little boys. (The littlest boy was sick over the course of the week, but was he sick with what we've all come down with today or with the last mild cold that passed thr...

Week 6: Valentines, Valentines, Valentines:   Katydid, wearing her rose-colored glasses (they actually are rose-tinted, to help with her headaches) looks very Valentine-ish, doesn't she?   Most of the Valentines this year involved large amounts of glitter.  I think this is Pip&...

Weeks 3, 4, and 5 are being lumped together as cabin fever weeks.  I think we did actually do something, and I have a few pictures to prove it, but mainly winter insanity took over. This week (week 5) ended up a little better than I expected, after a disastrous Monday on which I in...

We're having a bit of a problem getting back into a groove again.  While we made it through the holidays without getting sick, a couple of colds hit hard after New Year's.  Last week was a run-down sort of week.  Nobody had very much energy, although I doubt you would...

Oh, I've lost count.  But I'm going to do a week in review post anyway, just to bring us up to date before we stop for Christmas.  We'll take off until after January 1st -- baking, frantically cleaning, and catching up on a few really badly timed pediatric check-ups.  T...

    Yes, there is an Advent wreath hidden somewhere in this picture. (I also just noticed: Pip's cardboard castle is positioned just right to make it seem like something is nesting in an open woodstove. I feel like I'm posting a version of hidden pictures!) But, obviously, ...

Dawn and Theresa both posted recently about their "typical" days.  Their posts reminded me that I hadn't done a Day in the Life post for a while, so I decided to keep track of our Friday.  Friday was typical in that we didn't go anywhere (we have more days at home than not during...