Aloha and Holo Holo

There is a sinewy little boy I know, clad today in denim shorts,  a very dressy suit vest, a fancy cowboy hat, tough-looking work gloves, hi...

When I renewed my contract to continue to be the director for our local CC campus, I decided to make myself seem a bit more official. So, I...

We ran the Houston Color Run this morning. It was our very first 5K, and the whole family participated, including Mimi and Grandpa. Despite...

The weather here in central Texas has been amazing the last couple of weeks. It's been warm and sunny outside, like any perfect spring s...

We left our house at 6:20 this morning, so we could make it across the bridge before they closed it to through traffic. We then picked up do...

We did not take the week off from school and work, since we are planning to vacation during most of May and want to have have things wrapped...

At 1:15 am, the smoke alarms in our house went off. Because these kinds of things never happen at reasonable hours of the day, like 8:00 am....

A couple of years ago, we saw Lucas Miller in concert, and my kids literally wore his CD out. He is, by far, our favorite singing zoologist...

Before I get down to business here, did you notice the new blog title and the new tabs at the top? I was really tired of the extremely borin...

When Jeff came out of his office this evening, he proclaimed that I finally seemed like a "real boy mom." It was hard to know whet...

With the new slate of the new year, I had grand ideas about what I would accomplish or attempt to accomplish. One of the things that was bur...

We are so thankful to finally have an indoor play place close by ! This was the perfect thing for three energetic boys on a cloudy, drizzly ...

We had a fun field trip with our CC group to the Dino Park near Austin today. The weather was gorgeous, and the kids (and their chaperones)...

Ruth and Weston competed in the District PSIA meet today. This was Weston's first meet, and he competed in Creative Writing and Storytel...

There is a reason motherhood is called "a thankless job." It's because a mother continually does stuff for other people, who s...

Earlier this week, Jeff commented on how big he thought Clay was getting to be. I held to my opinion that that couldn't be true because ...

"What are you thankful for today?" This question was posed by a Facebook friend this morning, and I quickly and confidently respon...

Jeff and I have been married 14 1/2 years. In that time we have owned and lived in four homes with garages. We have never once parked a car ...