“Happy Day after Christmas!”

Charlie said without a trace of irony (As I’m reading this post to Laurel, she pointed out that she also doesn’t have a trace of iron(y). You’ll have to read on.) this morning and with a smile on his face. Here’s what preceded those words: I got up at 6:00 to go to the bathroom.…

All I want for Christmas is my two healthy kids.

Laurel and Charlie have the flu or something like it. Charlie was tired Sunday but agreed to go out sightseeing anyway. When we returned to the apartment, he napped on the sofa. I noticed his neck was throbbing – a pulsating jugular vein – and it really scared me. I called Barb for nursing advice…

San Francisco

I was going to title this “I left my calves in San Francisco.” When I Googled that, I found that another blogger had already used those words as a title to describe her family’s SF trip. 🙂 (Not that those words are copyrighted – I just wanted to be original.) We’re staying in a tiny,…

Phoenix Mountain Preserve, Arizona State University

On Monday we took the bus several miles north to the Dreamy Draw Recreation Area which is part of Phoenix Mountain Preserve where we picnicked and hiked. Today we took the light rail to Tempe and walked around the campus of Arizona State University. Tomorrow we may do a little more sightseeing before doing the…