It’s Christmas Eve and I’ve been wide awake since early this a.m. No, it’s not due to excitement but rather anxiety about the day, visitors coming, etc. Plus I get a rare opportunity to just sit down in complete quiet without interruption and sip my coffee without any little ones crowding my lap [...]

We woke up today to a vastly altered landscape. Several inches of soft, powdery snow fell throughout the night and made everything look beautiful. Times are pretty hard for us right now in a number of ways but I try to remember to be thankful for all of the things that I usually [...]

Sunday was Tristan’s 4th birthday. We had a small party for him and had a lot of fun with the Spiderman theme. He loves Spiderman. Here are some photos of that evening. Highlights of his presents were a beautiful pair of real cowboy boots from Grandma Oberg and a V-Smile video [...]

I’ve been meaning for a long time now to write about Keegan’s report card. He got all As, including two A+s!!! He loves school and obviously is doing well. We are very proud of him, not just because of school, but because of the way he helps out so much with his [...]

I’m on Christmas vacation now. What a relief. I have really needed a true break from work for a long time. It was sad to say good-bye to Ashley, who had worked for me on web development and graphics things for the past two years. She graduated and is moving on [...]

Hallelujah! Our PowerBook arrived back from repair last week. It’s all fixed up. I think they had to replace just about everything. It was way more money to fix than we had anticipated but I guess it is a relief to have it done.