Category: Family Life

March 4, 2015

Do you want to build a snowman?

Around here, we’ve had a lot of snow, but most of it has been just…

March 3, 2015

March 2, 2015

I’ve been thinking for a while about how everyone who sees me with my kids…

March 1, 2015

We had a much more subdued Lunar New Year celebration than we had planned. We were…

February 22, 2015

I got Silas to read on camera!

February 19, 2015

Silas can *read*! Consonant-Vowel-Consonant words, anyway. We were reading his bedtime story the other night,…

February 16, 2015

Silas says (very excitedly over breakfast): “Petra, I need to tell you something!” Petra: “What?”…

February 13, 2015

In 2009, JC and I signed up to mentor with Big Brothers/Big Sisters. Our local…

February 10, 2015

Today on the way to school, Silas asked me how a mommy and a daddy…

February 9, 2015

We play so much dress up here. And I think it’s about the cutest thing…