Somehow last night Mike ended up under the coffee table with all the girls. Violet still has quite a fascination with the Zingo (bingo) game boards. Mike noticed that she would repeat the words corresponding with the pictures on the card. It became a little game with them, and I caught some of it in [...]

No, I’m not talking about Mike. Old Baldy is the name of the retired lighthouse on Bald Head Island in NC. We decided to take a day to go see it. The only way to get to the island is to take a pedestrian ferry. To get around the island we rented a golf cart [...]

A much needed break was fulfilled by a trip to North Carolina last week. My dad officially calls the state his home now, and we got the opportunity to see his new digs and enjoy a big rise in temps. We had a great time going to the aquarium, taking the ferry over to tour [...]

The girls and I went to run some pre-trip errands last night, and Mike stayed home to work on get-this-house-sold projects. Upon our return home Mike was very excited to reveal a discovery of his. A friend told him about a web-cam that has been placed in an eagle’s nest and is live 24 hours [...]

Apparently, each time there are parent/teacher conferences in our school district, we can also expect a day off from school. I had no intention of keeping cooped up with the girls, so we made plans to go to one of the Children’s Museums near us. At first we were going to go with the Johnsons [...]