One Little Monkey
...holds a lot of memories. I am doing some cleaning up and cleaning out around the house. Admit it. You're jealous of my rockin' start to the unofficial kick off to summer, right? 🙂 With both kids occupied downstairs, I took the opportunity late this afternoon to...
73 Degrees, Sunny and (apparently) Smelly
Portlanders are currently being teased with a burst of warm sunny days forecasted for this week. Today it's 73 and sunny. Over the past two years, we've learned that sunny days before July typically mean long sleeves / shorts or short sleeves / pants most of the time....
Gavin “Loves Yoga”
My kids go to enrichment classes for after school care. You know, things like Bricks 4 Kidz, art, soccer, etc. that are held at school and bridge the gap between the end of their school day and the end of my work day. One of the new ones we tried this semester was...
Frozen and Friends. (And I don’t mean the weather.)
Grace is slightly obsessed with the movie Frozen.  She sings the songs constantly (sometimes backing her sweet voice with some strums on her guitar). (No, she has no idea how to play guitar, but that's all part of the fun. Haha.) Last night, she asked me if she could...
Kindergarten Character
So, here we are...at the end of Grace's second week of Kindergarten. And it's ending with a note from the teacher to me letting me know what a character she is. Hahaha. Oh my. She really is the opposite of her brother. At the end of HIS second week of Kindergarten, he...
Remembering
I am amazed at how emotional I still am upon this day each year. I get queasy leading into September. My eyes got hot with tears I read a commemorative headline or hear a news commentator say "September 11th". Even more so as the specials of the victims and the heroes...