“I don’t want to be good. Santa needs to visit bad girls too.” Doug and Noah are camping and the girls are with my parents, so I’m home with my oldest and youngest boys. The Christmas music is playing, the tree has lights and I’m blogging and uploading pictures to Flickr instead of doing laundry. […]

Aunt Jeni and that boy

Amy didn’t like having her eyes dilated. She got crankier by the minute even when I let her call Doug on the phone. “Daddy, I want to go home and eat a peanut butter sandwich and Mommy won’t let me.” She has bad vision but we can wait until just before kindergarten to get her […]

Since Amy failed her Lion's Club eye exam, I am taking her to the pediatric opthalmologist tomorrow. The only one in Knoxville. The one whose waiting room is always full because he is who Children's Hospital calls for every eye emergency. Blech.

Dear Blogger, Are there ANY human beings working there or is this system run completely by heartless computers? This blogger’s widow has been trying for weeks to get someone at blogger to make a post on her husband’s blog. Could you PLEASE help this woman. My husband has been writing you for weeks, trying to […]

There’s no ice here. Sure, it’s rainy, but it’s really not even very cold outside. The mountains protect this area from most bad weather. I just hope we are taking good care of the mountains.

Last night I Noah finished his book report and project. Half of it was on The Grey King (easy) and half of it was on Golem. Golem is illustrated with hauntingly beautiful cut-paper scenes. The story is very dark and easily used as a modern day parable but Noah missed the underlying themes completely. Maybe […]

Is this the fun part? 

Is "biggerest" more than biggest or halfway between bigger and biggest?

I have now officially begun my holiday freakout that will end in a total meltdown. Too much to do in too little time with no money or cooperation.