Today we are cleaning my closet, RK’s closet, the upstairs foyer closet, all three bathroom closets, and underneath both upstairs bathroom vanities. I’ve recently bought some more storage solutions, though these came from Amazon and not from IKEA. I can’t go into IKEA without spending at least six hours in there, it’s just not possible. [...]

I can’t believe the difference that four days of eating (and drinking) vegetables has made in RK. I mentioned the TENS Unit in last year’s Christmas Hits post. He’s basically been spending hours every day with the Tens unit for an injury that he doesn’t want to have surgery to fix. He’s been doing physical [...]

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 [...]