When I was a college student in the not-so-distant past, I made a habit of picking up Yes (“Your Ultimate Valley Shopping Guide”) from the distribution racks that littered the campus. This weekly publication contained more advertising than substance, and what actual content it had was unexceptional (with the exception of Jaimee Rose’s editorial column  Read more »

The entire family is sequestered while we try to complete the massive amount of stuff that needs to be done before we leave for our “Not Back To School Days” trip to Disneyland. The older boys proved incapable of doing schoolwork on our spontaneous trip to the Vegas last week, so that means dozens of  Read more »

I kicked off the day with a dentist appointment, and left with an aching mouth and an exhortation to floss (which I do, religiously). School starts in less than a week, and we have yet to receive our books. I can’t get organized, and my sanity depends on organization. I’ve got an inbox full of  Read more »

While trapped in the house due to chicken pox quarantine and blazing heat avoidance, I’ve been trying to accomplish things around the house. Most of these things don’t lend themself to blogging, unless you’re interested in: disposing of plastic food storage containers with no matching lids (or vice versa), recycling cardboard boxes strewn about the  Read more »

As far as babies go, Brady was quite amiable for the first six months of his life (give or take a couple weeks).  He never engaged in unjustified crying, slept through the night at an early age, and greeted the world with a gummy smile. Now? I fear that I broke the baby. It started  Read more »