We finished off our week on manners with an end-of-the-year tea party.  Little Red Ridinghood (4) invited her friends from ballet class and ...

We did find some time for fun while we were at Duke University Hospital.  We had to wait an extra day to wait for the big teen's cardiac...

As you can tell from the title, this will be a bit of a ramble.  We are back from Duke University Hospital.  It sure is nice to be home.  Ou...

I had a talk with the kids about what they wanted to do on their "school break", and after we weeded out the "not going to ha...

In a few minutes we are off to our end-of-year testing.  The big teen and Goldilocks are the only ones in our family at the moment who are r...

The Simple Woman  holds a really fun meme and I thought I would join in this week.  If you want to read more daybook entries, go to the abov...

Tom Sawyer (6) finished Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons today! He really is super great at sounding out words and is really do...