Half a Hike

This past weekend we went for a family hike at the new Winnick Woods trail (note: by “new” I mean that Tim just told me about it, but for all I know it’s like three years old). It was a lovely morning and everyone was skipping along happily and Dave...

Haircut 100

It was Haircut Time here at World of Julie. Haircut Time used to be a horrible, horrible time, when Henry would run screaming from him like I was chasing him with scissors. (Oh, wait…well, like I was going to cut open his chest with the scissors.) Right after...

I Love Trucks

Eli’s perfect day: when the electric company’s bucket truck is on the street trimming tree limbs around the electric lines. For a two-year-old boy, it just doesn’t get any better than this: Well, unless they were digging big piles of dirt. That might...

Mama to a Mama's Boy

Kids are complicated. It’s stupid to try to slap a label on them, because besides undermining their self esteem by putting them in a little box, you’d really need to give them a label-with-slashes like modern-day careers have...

Happy Halloween

Eli and Henry are planning on being spiders today, despite Eli’s earnest insistence for the last week or so that he’s going to be a cannonball. (He’s a cannonball every day, regardless.) This past weekend we carved up some jack-o-lanterns. First they...