i'm going to make it (after all)

As the kids have gotten older, I've found it hard that we're starting to live our own little lives apart from each other. Oliver...

We took the kids yurt camping! Camping is a loose term here. Yurts are semi-permanent structures, and they kind of remind me of a circu...

Andrew's befriended one of his new coworkers already, and he was kind enough to give us passes to the Des Moines Science Center (norm...

We finally got some more snow! We've been desperate for snow here in the Denver area. Our climate is  so  dry. If we don't get enou...

When I was young, my mom constantly reminded me not to try to grow up fast. "You only get to be a kid once," she'd say. Typi...

I met my friend, Sam, and her husband, Jim, and son, Charlie, at the mall in my hometown of Chicago Ridge. Oliver is currently half of Charl...