The woman in charge of lunch accounts at the elementary school called me the other day. The kids’ lunch accounts were negative. In fact Caleb’s account was almost negative $10. What?!? Really? I could have sworn we just sent lunch money to school with...

Yesterday was my very own terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day. It started out like every other day. My alarm went off. I hit snooze. It went off again. I hit snooze again. Rinse and repeat. Then I finally dragged my tired behind out from under...

So when we last left off Spencer had a construction orange cast on, couldn’t play in the big Wisconsin soccer tournament, and went from being a halfback/cornerback in football to an assistant coach. He wasn’t completely sedentary though. Once we got...

When Spencer was younger he wasn’t much of a sports guy. He’s played soccer since kindergarten, but was never very aggressive. In first and second grade he went out for wrestling, but you could tell it wasn’t really his thing. He got some medals only...

I’ve talked before about how Halloween is not my favorite holiday. It’s too commercial. It’s too expensive. We always end up eating way too much candy. And then we’re all groaning about stomach aches. What’s the point? And yet every year I find myself...