the world of weed

I've been staying up way too late this week watching the Olympics.  I don't know what it is about them, but I just can't stop wa...

Rebecca's got her chatty sister beat for how much and how well she talks at barely two years old.  She talks non stop from the minute sh...

I'm done with camp!  HOORAY!!!! -26 cute, sweet, WHINY six year old girls -Temps in the 90s with VERY high humidity for four of the ...

My 20 year high school reunion is this weekend.  I can't go (I wasn't even sure I wanted to go anyway, but then I found out I couldn...

These last couple of weeks have not been normal ones around here.  Last week, as I wrote before, I was at my parents' house for a few da...

Yesterday we ran a million errands.  One of them was to Target, where Rachel fell in love with a backpack for school.  We didn't buy it ...

This has been a crazy week around here.  For three days this week I babysat twin 6 year old girls--friends of Rachel's from Girl Scouts ...

This weekend the girls and I went up to my parents' house for a sibling reunion.  My younger brother, Jack, lives in NYC and doesn't...

Waiting for the parade (melting in the sun....oh, my, was it ever HOT!) Standing in the shade now and then while we waited Sitting i...

This is two year old Weed, circa 1976. This is   two year old Rachel , circa 2008. And here's the newest version, two year old R...

Last week we made our annual trek to meet up with my dear friend, Allecia, and her kiddos.  As you may recall, they moved away back when Ra...

A huge storm came through here on Friday night.  Hurricane force winds, they say.  Our corner of the city seems to be the hardest hit.  Not ...

Today's our 11th anniversary.  I won't write about it because I've already written about it here  and here  and especially here ...

Both girls had their well visits at the doctor this morning.  Most people won't care much about this post, so it's mostly for me for...

It's been so hot!  We spent most of the week alternating between the air conditioning inside and playing outside in the water.  Rachel s...

Rachel's been bugging me to go play in the fountains ever since school was out.  Tuesdays the zoo brings animals to the founains, and on...

We let our zoo membership expire, so we hadn't been in awhile, but we just renewed it, and spent the morning there today (along with eve...

We've still been laying low this summer, though Rebecca finally seems to be better.  But as soon as she got better, she went and did thi...

I haven't posted in over a week because not a lot has been going on.  Last week we spent almost the whole week at home because Rebecca w...

We couldn't have a birthday party for Rebecca without the Wiggles.... I used the top of a straw cup we had from when Rachel was lit...