Aloha and Holo Holo

Ruth has long been a fan of the Fancy Nancy books and an even longer fan of anything over the top.When we celebrated my Mom's birthday e...

The kids and I arrived in Vegas safe and sound yesterday afternoon. (Jeff went on to Phoenix to meet with some of his consulting clients and...

Well, we are off to visit Jeff's parents in Las Vegas tomorrow. They are coming home in June, supposedly for good, so we had to work in ...

Because only she really knows what it's like to try to motivate Jeff Watts to go shopping for new clothes, and then to go along on such ...

Today I happened across a box of old letters from Jeff to me, spanning the whole of our early relationship--from the first time we met at St...

Maybe not, but here are some things that fell around here today: A huge limb out of a tree in our front yard. We suspect that the trash tr...

The other day we were having a family Bible time and talking about the Lord's promise to Abram (Abraham) to have many descendants, even ...

The first thing my eyes spied when I came downstairs this morning were cracked eggs all over the kitchen floor. That's how the day start...

Jeff and I are serious Food Network junkies. Among our favorite shows is Iron Chef America . So, when one of Jeff's co-workers threw out...

We had lunch today at The Salt Lick . So did lots of other people. We went by van. Some of the other diners arrived by bus. Some on motorcyc...

You've heard that kids don't come with an instruction manual, but I found one today that they are sure to start handing out with th...

So I have this *friend* who is feeling a little blue. She had a baby about three months ago and still hasn't gotten back to her regular ...

I have long been a fan of the local children's resale shops. You can get everything there--from clothes to gear to toys--at a fraction o...

2, 10, 5, 15, 4, 7: All acceptable numbers of little girls that can play happily together. The only number that just doesn't work is 3....

I thought the blog needed a Spring-looking facelift. So here you go. Let me know how you like it.