Connor and Helen Grow Up

Helen and Connor took gymnastics lessons over the winter months. It's a way to make sure they can run around on Saturday morning without...

My house, and probably yours, too - if you happen to live with a four year old, is an unending chorus of "I already knew that" and...

Helen loves the swimming pool. And that's a good thing, seeing as how she's been at our neighborhood pool twice daily since it warme...

We play a lot of word games around here. That's what happens when you are blessed with children who talk non-stop. It provides a good wa...

OK, so at first I was thinking we'd go to a cupcake store every other week, and then I thought maybe we'd go every week. But do you ...

Among other problems, one of the major ailments affecting many folks growing up in Kansas and probably the western half of Missouri is the d...

This week's cupcake tasting took us all the way to Overland Park, Kansas. I'd heard from my sister that Smallcakes put crack in thei...

Every time I attend a Waldorf festival, I see all sorts of handmade toys that I want to purchase, but then almost always convince myself I s...

First, have your wife and children travel one time zone away. Have them return Saturday night at 10:00 PM, and make sure no one slept on the...

My mom has been faithfully printing out and saving everything I've ever written on this blog and the blog's predecessor . She compil...