Today brought a small drama. For the past couple of days I’ve noticed a rotten egg smell in the basement which I know can mean that I was smelling natural gas. Rather than wait until something terrible happened, I decided to have the gas company come take a look. Sure enough, we had ourselves a [...]

Since 4:30 p.m. today, this is what I’ve been dealing with: Mike informed me on his way home from work that he was sick. Upon his arrival home he almost immediately made a beeline for bed. I couldn’t even coax him to make an appearance for dinner, a dinner made especially for him–grilled cheese sandwiches [...]

Once again, we visited the Washington D.C. Temple for the wonderful Christmas light display and the musical performance. The evening we chose featured a bell choir. The music was delightful. It was quite interesting to see all those bells and the different ways they were played. Somehow I ended up sitting with both girls with [...]

Last night we finally got around to taking down all the Christmas decorations (on…cough… January 13th…cough). The saddest part for me was removing all the holiday cards because I really feel like our friends and family are close by when I see all those pictures and Christmas wishes. Part of being in the Navy is [...]

Last night Mimi took a huge step and tinkled a teensy bit on the big potty. We were out for dinner, and I was taking Annie to the potty. Mimi declared that she, too, had to go potty. Of course, I was willing to let her have a go at it. She and I were [...]