As we did last year, the parents met the bus with silly string, water ballooons and super soakers to celebrate the beginning of summer. Today, the weather vacillated between thunderstorms and heavy clouds, and I made the executive decision that we should probably hold off on the water until they went for it. I [...]
This morning, we were watching Dinosaur Train, and Maggie said she wished we lived in the Cretaceous period and the the Dinosaur Train came through our house and through the fireplace.
Stagg and I started listing off all the problems with this idea, including:
* A train coming through the living room [...]
One of the down sides of going back to school is the concentration of germs. Both Maggie and Katie have gotten “the fever disease” and have spent some time at home.
Katie missed Thursday and Friday of last week. The first day, she laid in bed, the second day, she was mostly fine and did [...]
The other day, Maggie and I went shopping. We stopped at an outdoor mall, and she looked around. “White House Black Market? That’s a dumb name for a store,” she told me.
“It is? Why is that?” I had never really thought about it much.
“Well, the White House is in Washington, DC, and [...]
