This summer during the break between summer school and regular school, Peanut had a hard time. He expressed this hard time by smearing poop...

Earlier tonight, there was a Stars Wars movie on TV. Walnut thinks Stars Wars is the coolest thing ever, even though he has never seen any ...

I'm feeling very spoiled about now, and not in a good way. I have a strong, safe house with heat and central air, and yet I complain th...

'Tis the eve of Thanksgiving, so I suppose I should think of some things for which to be thankful. (like how I made sure not to end tha...

My cat died Saturday night. Well, actually, we had him put to sleep. He was 13 years old and recently diagnosed with diabetes. He was suf...

We hope you are enjoying Father's Day and celebrating not only your own dad, but the father of your children, too. Amy and I couldn'...

I promised some pictures of my latest creations, so here we go! First of all, we have my garden, 3 tomato plants and 5 pepper plants. Here...

Today, it's been a week since school got out for Walnut and Peanut. We don't have any big plans, yet. Walnut is going to be in a...

As soon as I knew I was pregnant with each of my kids, I knew something about them. With Walnut, I knew as soon as I saw the pink lines, th...

My child and Amy's children will never be able to connect over a game of baseball. Since we live in Chicagoland, we have 2 major league ...

Today, we have a guest blogger giving us a review of "The Chronicles of Narnia" by C. S. Lewis. Filbert has been reading the book...

...you can be sure that Cashew thought of it, Walnut figured out how it could be accomplished and Peanut volunteered to go first. They'...

Super Bowl Sunday, every man's worst nightmare, missing the big game because his wife is inconveniently in labor. Although, when my lab...

This has been the dilemma for Filbert and me. We thought we had decided that we would not do Santa and always present him as a legend or a ...

The priorities of a 5 year old are quite interesting. I was taking a shower the other day. Cashew was asleep and Walnut and Peanut were watc...

Halloween, that is. As I've mentioned before, our Peanut has Prader-Willi Syndrome . (Yes, I'm going to link every time.) The bigg...