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It's challenging (as opposed to relaxing) to get through a long weekend with young children. Yesterday, the midpoint of the weekend, we ...

  In the four and a half years since the twins were born, I've successfully avoided almost all art projects. I'm not an artsy ...

OK, here's Part 2 of our late summer vacation, with lots of photos. Yes, by the way, I do have a new camera. I don't like it much, b...

We're back from our second big summer vacation and now I think it's time for summer to end. Summer has other plans, of course -- in ...

Yesterday was our 10th anniversary -- isn't that amazing? We were talking about it -- does it feel like ten years? Yes and no. In some w...

I realize I've been avoiding this blog because I DON'T HAVE MY CAMERA and I've forgotten how to blog without photos. For the fir...

That title should probably be "Bad Me" but I'm still cross, so I'm going to blame Ridgecrest. We had such a nice day tod...

So it happened, the piano is gone. I took this photograph last night just before bed. I'd gotten all the junk off the piano, dusted ...

So we decided it was time to do another camping trip. When we were in the Bay Area over 4th of July we managed to score a family-sized ten...