1. My sisters name everything. They name their cars. My youngest sister Kara named her violas in high school. On the other hand, I am terrible at naming things. Which means that I just last week named my car. The one that I bought two years ago. My car is purple, and I started by calling it the purple people eater. Youngest Twin was not impressed and frankly told me that the name was too long. I … [Read more...]

For the past year and a half, since we moved to Fort Worth, we have been a 1 car family. My husband has a motorcycle that he drives to work and I generally get to keep the car to drive the kids around in. Going down to one car was a choice that we made when we moved based on parking choices available to us. But having only one car has become more problematic lately and this week we took the … [Read more...]

    I realized not too long ago, when we were at my in-laws and Littlest asked for 'normal' ice cream, that we certainly play favorites at our house. Especially when it comes to food. Some examples, in a numbered list form: 1. 'Normal' ice cream = vanilla For Littlest (and the twins) normal ice cream is just plain vanilla. It's their favorite. They don't even … [Read more...]