Just like the last two years, we made an appearance at the annual balloon glow this year. Sadly it’s starting to get a little repetitive. It’s the same balloons every year and there aren’t any activities for the kids to do. Lee came up with a couple suggestions to make it a little more interesting. [...]

We took the kids to a sailboat regatta the other day. Doesn’t that make us sound all snooty and important? A sailboat regatta. Ooh. Aaah.
But really our sailboat regatta involved sailboats made from milk cartons.
The library had a little craft event. Weyerhaeuser provided the milk cartons. The library provided the water. And the kids provided [...]

This afternoon we headed off to the park with lunch and three bags of bread. “Bread?” you ask. Yes, bread. But not for us. The bread was for the ducks.

Feeding the ducks is cheap entertainment. Except today we bought the bread at Dollar General. Don’t let the “dollar” in the name fool you. Stuff [...]

It’s always weird to see the rest of the world going on with life like nothing’s happened when your own world seems to be standing still.
Lee’s mom passed away this morning.
Lee wasn’t very close to his mom. He was raised by his grandmother after his mom abandoned him as an infant. She came in and [...]