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This morning we had breakfast with Santa at Glen Leven. This was the first year that Turner wasn’t scared of Santa. Weston was still a little hesitant, so he sat with Mrs. Claus instead. Edit on Feb 24, 2022: Adding

Tonight Chitters raided the boys’ underwear drawer. The boys got a bigger kick out of it than I was expecting. Then our Japanese friends came over for dinner and we had to explain why our kids’ underwear was hanging on

I finally got motivated to pick up this shelf project I’d started some months ago. I think part of the problem I’ve run into such self-resistance is that each time I’ve worked on it before, I’d go at it for

Last Monday, we had our first snow of the winter. Today it was in the seventies and I was able to go on a bike ride without my coat. It really was a beautiful day, but possibly the last of

Its waaaay too early in December to be struggling for Elf ideas.

In addition to Chitters, we’ve also started an Advent Calendar. I got the boys the Star Wars LEGO Advent Calendar. The problem is that I only got one of them. A novice mistake with 2 boys. So, I devised this

We’ve begun this again. The Elf On The Shelf thing. Chitters. Probably 2 weeks too early. This is day 2 and we’re already having trouble figuring out what to do with this d@mn thing. So, tonight, he snuck in and

I somehow ended up with this duck skull ornament during a Dirty Santa party last year. The guy that brought it was Walt, a good friend of ours that we used to go to church with. He’s always talked about

We started off the Thanksgiving holiday by going down to Lynchburg to have lunch and dinner with Traci’s side of the family. We hung out at Traci’s grandma’s house most of the day. The boys did fairly well and it’s