… your children (who have been rummaging around in an old box in the basement) bring you a cassette tape and say, “Mommy, what’s this?!”

I’m a child of the 80’s. The majority of my younger childhood was in the eighties. (Not high school, mind you.) Admittedly, I’m one of those people who actually looks on those years somewhat fondly.
I enjoyed rolling up the sleeves on my T-shirts, doubling up on coordinating colored socks, playing games on my Commodore 64, and [...]

My boys and I recently watched the new Nancy Drew movie. They loved the mystery! In fact, Andy keeps asking us to build a “mystery house with secret passages.” I thought maybe they were ready to be introduced to the Nancy Drew / Hardy Boys series of books.
I thought it would be fun to read [...]

This week, Shannon over at Rocks in My Dryer is once again hosting her Works for Me Wednesday… and since it’s the first Wednesday of the month, it’s themed. This month’s theme is “Greatest Hits.” She says, “For fun (and to take a load off!), let’s have the Greatest Hits Edition.  From your own archives, [...]

I’m happy to be the wife of a police officer. Most of the time, I don’t mind that he misses dinner to take a drunk guy to jail or resuscitate an ailing person. I generally don’t mind getting calls all hours of the night for him to go out with his police dog either. And, [...]

Every year, I send out a Christmas letter to update our friends and family who live far away from us. Since we moved about two hours from our hometowns and most of our friends are spread out all over the country, I like to include a photo Christmas card as well.
I used to order them every [...]

Inside it’s so delightful.
The kids are in bed and Nate is working late on a police car-hijacking call. When he left to go to work at 5 p.m., it had not started snowing. There wasn’t even a lick of snow on the ground. (Don’t ask me how much a lick is… I don’t know.) Yet, [...]

My brother-in-law just sent us this link. Gather your children around and watch this hilarious bird. You won’t believe it!

With four kids ages four and under and one on the way, I don’t have a lot of free time. But, since my parents asked to watch the boys this weekend, here’s what Nate and I did:

What can I say? We’re quick learners.

Our family has a unique (and free!) way of celebrating things. We have “family camp outs” — on our living room floor!
Some good family friends of ours have done this for years and we thought it was idea worth stealing. They started doing it when their oldest child was little as an incentive to get [...]