From the monthly archives:

September 2008

Is Wednesday too late to post a weekend update? I hope not. After the rodent fiasco on Saturday morning we were all wide awake. I had picked up a San Diego Family magazine earlier in the week hoping that I might be able to find something fun to do with the kids. (It’s college football [...]

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I woke up early on Saturday morning needing to use the bathroom. As I staggered back to my bedroom (it was barely 6 a.m.) I noticed an unmistakable silhouette on the floor. Even without my glasses on I knew what it was. Uggh, we’d left the doggie door open over night and Lovely the cat [...]

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Just before moving to San Diego my brilliant husband decided that we needed a GPS for the car. At the time I didn’t understand why he would choose to spend his hard earned cash (a gift from George Bush actually) on a GPS of all things. I half-heartily agreed even though I didn’t see the [...]

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Paul was very excited last week when he learned that the gingerbread man would be paying a visit to his school. Unfortunately Mr. Gingerbread Man was so fast that nobody actually saw him. Paul was no worse off from the wild goose chase because Mr. Gingerbread Man left something even better in his place…cookies!

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Megan reached her first fitness goal at school. You see, every morning when the students are dropped off at school they are encouraged to run (or walk) laps around the play yard. Sometimes teachers and parents participate too. For every twenty laps that are completed a child earns one of these feet to proudly display [...]

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