• First day. First grade.

    Well, it happened too fast. The Kindergartener has earned a new designation. She’s now officially the First-Grader. She has already informed me that she’ll be learning to write cursive this year and sitting at a “real” desk. At this rate, she may be driving herself to school by second grade. She has also cautioned her…

  • Wedding Weekend Recap

    I’m the oldest of three children. I have a sister three years younger and a brother nine years younger. Nearly eight years ago when our dad passed away, I was twenty-seven and newly married. My sister was twenty-four and had been married a couple of years. But my brother was nineteen and only two months…

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    Summer snapshots

    Every summer I like to look back at pictures from summers past and see how much things have changed from year to year. For some reason, this is the only time of year that I remember to do this. Starting in the summer of 2007… even then the Kindergartener was into planning outdoor adventures. 2008……