I remember a couple of snow days when I was a kid, but there had to be like a foot of snow before that happen. Six inches? Pft, get your butts to class. There was only once (in high school)[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Yeah, so as we head into our first snowpocalypse of 2024, some people are worried about the roads, some are worried about supplies, some… are just wondering why there’s not already more on the ground. Eight inches? Bring it! Says[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We all know that it’s the same thing with work: Vacations are never long enough. Time off passes in a blink and we’re back to reality, though I think that the experience is worse for kids because they don’t have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Just to be clear, the girls are terrible at “sneak” attacks, and Tim was already awake, so their advantage was short-lived before the, uh… “tactical withdrawal” began. You know, like Monty Python versus the white rabbit sort of thing which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
On the twelfth day of Christmas, I gave everyone puns! Which is also what I gave on the other days of Christmas. Lots of puns! All the puns! I’m so very giving, aren’t I? And not just with puns, either;[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Arwyn desperately wants to live in a winter wonderland, but she and I have very different opinions on what constitutes “wonderland.” I swear that we used to get a lot more snow, a lot earlier in the year when I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Herd of cats? Of course, I’ve heard of cats! And a group of them is called a clowder. A group of kids should be called “a chaos,” but that’s neither here nor there. The point is that they had fun[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The more things change, eh? Yeah, we were constantly telling them to spread the ornaments out and make sure that they did ALL the way around. They just wanted to decorate the side facing into the living room so they[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
They met the boy while they were playing with an exhibit that had a fan blowing up a big, three-foot diameter tube and some very thin fabric sheets that they could effectively launch out of the tube, then play catch[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The girls loved their costumes and had several people take pics of them, with our favourite request coming right after another, where a woman said “Oh, I want a picture of Little Tali!” Arwyn’s was a little less recognizable outside[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…