Eclectica

…that makes two of us.

Lately I have begun to think about growing up. not myself mind you, that is a long way off, but my kids.
As a parent I want to savor every bit of cute childhood-ness that I see every day. But at the same time I’m supposed to be prepping the kids to grow up. Part of [...]

well we are back from our extreme holiday excursion. Extreme because it involved driving back and forth across the country in a minivan with 3 kids and 2 dogs. And overall the kids did great. not a lot of complaining pretty good cooperating and average amount of arguing with each other. Thank goodness for laptop [...]

McKelvey has been recently been reading the Harry Potter books. She has gotten thru the first two. As a result, she has developed a fear of basilisks she never had before. Which means for the first time in a long while she wants me to sit with her as she falls asleep. Usually, she can [...]

This year’s thanksgiving was great. Not only did Ann prepare a fabulous meal, but the kids were also great. We had the usual minor fights over cleaning up after themselves(I totally understand why my parents kept wanting me to not leave my shoes in the middle of the living room), but on the whole it [...]

A couple of weekends ago we went to the theatre and played around in the rehearsal hall. we had fun. here is one part:
McKelvey dancing to a Magic Tree House Song from Owen Collins on Vimeo.

Had fun this morning playing around with the girls. We went to the rehearsal hall at work to play around. I put on some music and we danced around and goofed around a bit as well. I must remember to do this while they are still kids and interested. Once they become surly teenagers, my [...]

Well, I finally have pictures up from Halloween.

You can see all of them here.
I also have some pictures from my birthday, the girls dance performance at the Theater at Lime Kiln(at which Liam wore a tux), Carving pumpkins, and more.

McKelvey watched Star Wars for the first time over the weekend, now she wants to be Princess Leia next halloween.The geek in me is grinning. This halloween she is going to be Princess Buttercup from The Princess Bride) Arden is going to be bacon. Because, as she said, ” I love bacon so much I [...]