The Life I Have Imagined

Well it's been a long time since I posted. The kids are teens and almost 15 now.  They are so tall, I wasn't ready for them being ta...

The twins are 11 already! My how the years fly by! They are fifth graders now. They are both killing it at school. They’ve both taken up the...

Which is my favorite month by far, but it's been a crazy year for us all. I started a post back in the winter about the seemingly pressi...

I don’t really do New Year’s resolutions, but I should probably make one to do a better job documenting our lives. I completely skipped blo...

Well hello there.  I had started a back to school post back in September, but then life got really crazy and it didn't happen.  The kid...

Summer seems to start earlier every year, so we've been trying to make the most of May.  My step father is still fighting his cancer...

Enjoying our first snow in three months (which is already gone a few days later) I've droned on for years about the kids' s...

It's been a hot and busy summer around here, so I've been off the blogs.  Living and loving real life.  Lots to update: Marielle ...

As I continue to ponder whether to send the kids to preschool before next fall, this is definitely for the annals of nerdy suburban parent,...

As I am looking at pre-pre-schools for the kids, it has gotten me thinking about real school, like kindergarten (hold me).  As I've...

For anyone following my blog since I started in January (and even for those who have hopped on since), you know it's been quite the chal...

Oh how I wish we were in Vancouver... We loved it when we went in 2007. We made it up to Whistler (though it wasn't ski season :() and ...

So I wrote a "holiday" letter for 2009, but couldn't bring myself to send it out because it marked our second holiday letter t...