Holiday parties.  Christmas cards.  Gifts.  Festival of Lights.  Stomach bugs.  We have survived so far.  Just wanted everyone to know that we are still doing ok here.  We expect to give a full report after the New Year!  Here is one special anecdote: We decided to do an Advent Wreath this year, and from day […]

Today, we celebrated Thanksgiving as just our little family.  I was excited to break out some of our entertaining stuff, which hasn’t gotten much use in our small apartment thus far.  Through several exertions of self discipline and a few charitable donations, we were able to clear out a lot of the extra stuff in […]

We are so glad to have another visitor this week, Oma!  She has already made herself quite handy, coordinating two meals and helping to nurse Colin back to health when he was suffering from a little stomach bug yesterday.  He was quite pathetic, yet adorable: He woke up feeling terrible, threw up a few times, […]

I will not lie.  Today was hard.  Colin’s school was out because of Labor Day weekend, so I got to be a single parent of two for a day.  Yikes!  Besides the fact that this is hard anyway, today was my first time to attempt it for so long.  Originally, we were going to hang […]