I couldn’t find a jacket for Alana for school today. I looked but I think her jackets are hiding somewhere else. Her teacher was nervous that her sweatshirt wasn’t enough, so she borrowed a jacket from the lost and found. Which Alana calls the “lost and fountain.” Which I LOVE. That’s all.

Today, we began our annual road trip. This year, we are heading to the Northeast. Our first stop was Lake Compounce in Connecticut, America’s first amusement park. There were a lot of kiddie rides and water activities. I went with Danny to kill ghosts at the Ghost House while Brian stayed with the other three

Today (as it’s after midnight), my first cousin Danny is getting married. Since Sarah has a little brother named Danny, I had to show her a picture of her older cousin Danny. Danny’s Facebok profile photo is of him and his fiancee. When Sarah saw it, she said, “I don’t understand how a boy and

Alana has a white bear. Today, she’s toting it around and calling it Fluffy. I accidentally addressed it as Fuzzy, and Alana corrected me and told me its name was Fluffy. I told her about my former next door neighbor who had a cat called Fluffy. Her eyes lit up. She said, “Just like my

Today (Friday, folks), I cleaned out a lot of the kids’ stuff and put the art I want to save in the attic. When the girls got home from camp, I saw that Alana had made a piece of artwork of a cat on a bag. I told Alana that I was just in the

On Wednesday, Sarah asked me how old I was. I first told her 79, and then I told her “you don’t ask a woman her age.” She responded with “but you’re my mommy!” Two days later, I wanted to blog about it — but I initially forgot what it was that prompted her to say