So it started with Kindergarten orientation – no, wait – make that soccer – no, no, no back that train up. Make that day camp. Day Camp is when we started seeing the writing on the wall. The writing that said “Oh Here Go Hell Come”. The last couple weeks with Little P have broken [...]
One of the other notable items from this year’s annual snow-stravaganza was that Stella found her holy grail in the form of a precocious boy and his feline sidekick. Yes, that is my fancy way of saying she’s totally addicted to Calvin & Hobbes. At some point, while rifling through the stacks of books up [...]
This was the year. The year we would get Stella on the chair lift and the year we would get Porter on skis. And what do you know, but we did it! Or, they did it. Er, um, we facilitated it? Whatever. Stella slayed the chair-lift (with the one minor hiccup of nearly taking out [...]
We are now the proud owner of a 2nd grader. Our model happens to come complete with the Virtual Teenager Upgrade, as witnessed by the conversation held after her first day: Me: “Soooooo, how was your first day?” Her: “OMYGOD, Ruby had this TOTALLY cute shirt on.” Me: “Wow. So how did you like your [...]
Digging around in my pictures I came across this set that I realized I never got around to blogging (big surprise). They were taken a couple of weeks back when Stella had Alex over for a sleepover (her first official non-family or babysitting-type sleepover, no less). The girls ended up tromping around the backyard in [...]