We’ve had a great year. I think one of the biggest milestones was GlitterGirl attending her first semi-formal boy-girl dance. The kind where you go with a date. Which (of course) RK and I helped chaperone while TwinkleToes spent the night with her grandparents. The tornadoes were bad, but we’ve got all but two neighbors [...]

Do I really need to say anymore than that? Is there anything better than spending time with your kids when they are behaving? And then, watching them open their presents and seeing them excited and happy? TwinkleToes actually jumped up and did a few happy dances in between opening hers, complete with air punches and [...]

I have had a blast buying gifts this year. I’ve also had fun with my girls backstage while they performed, fun with craft projects, visits to Santa, and everything else we do leading up to Christmas Day. Now, it’s all about enjoying each other. The girls are going to get to open the Story Cubes [...]

I don’t believe we’re far enough into the month to have rumors yet, but I went looking anyway, just to be sure. The first I would expect to see rumors would be mid-week next week, but I’ll be keeping an eye out this week anyway, just to be on the safe side. The Nutcracker schedule [...]

There used to be a bunch of responses to this. Things like — there is a Sixty Minutes news crew waiting for you in your office when you get to work. Well, I have another one — when you arrive at work and there are more law enforcement officers there than employees. It’s been an [...]

It’s been a rough two weeks, and I’m off work today and can do the final preparations for tomorrow. We had one house-guest arrive over the weekend, and three more will arrive today. I’m feeding fourteen people tomorrow. There is a lot of prep work to do. We’re also into the rehearsal schedule for The [...]