The Anderson Family

That's right...I'm on Spring Break!!! Only I don't feel quite so free, because our house is being fumigated on Thursday, so tha...

Tuesday, March 26, 2002 My sleep was fitful, to say the least. I had a very hard time getting any z's, couldn't get comfortable or ...

9:35 am on March 25th, 2002....29 weeks, 4 days pregnant....I remember lying in my bed, feeling miserable. I had a hard time breathing, cou...

Mia's been freaked out about ghosts lately. They're in her room at night, pestering her and scaring her to death, and sometimes, the...

Oh man, do I suck at maintaining a blog or what?!! My last post was March 29, 2009. It's February 21, 2010. Nearly 11 months have gon...

Sarah last night: "You just don't get it. You don't know how hard my life is." I guess being seven years old is much har...

It's 11:16pm right now, and I was about to cozy up in bed after a really fantastic birthday with you. I looked up at the clock, and whe...

This evening, just as Grace and Sarah were headed for bed, I decided to give Sarah's very loose tooth a wiggle. Her tooth was almost li...

How many teachers are out there who enjoy pulling out a small child's loose tooth? Probably not many, and I for sure don't want to ...

Today marks the last day of the first half of the school year. It seems like yesterday when we were clothes shopping, shoe shopping, when t...

Today marks a historic day in our country. Barack Obama is our new president! WOW! I am hopeful for our nation's future, and although...

Yesterday, Mia was feeling under the weather, so we stayed home all day. In the mid-morning, I asked her if she wanted to paint, to which s...

So tonight, I picked up the girls from my mom's house, and on our drive home this is how our conversation went: Sarah: Mom, how do you ...

Funny story from work today, my first day back after Christmas vacation. Today was a student's birthday, we all happily sang happy birt...

Today marks the end of our Christmas vacation. It's been fantastic sleeping in and hanging around the house with Carey and the girls. ...

Here's #5: Live each day to its fullest and don't put off what I can do today. As Gene Appel said in church today: "Yesterday...

My resolutions this year: 1) Get in shape 2) Organize the house and garage. 3) Get Carey to get that *#$#!@*& sailboat out of our gar...

On Christmas Day, we awoke to the sounds of Gracie screaming because that old man in the red suit came to our house and dropped off some AMA...

On Christmas Eve, I continued my yearly tradition of trudging to the Brea Mall early in the morning to purchase a six-pack of Cinnabons to e...

Four days before Christmas, Grace decided to give herself an early Christmas present...a haircut. Done by her. She was at my mom's hou...

I am 37, but only for a mere 3 hours and 15 minutes. My birthday is tomorrow, and tomorrow happens to be 3 hours and 15 minutes away. So a...

Well, she did it! Mia pooped on the potty. Last night, Carey and I were on a date and Nana and Bruce were over babysitting. Sometime duri...

Last night, Mia said to Carey, "Dad, there's a ghost in my room." Carey replied, "There's not a ghost in your room....

Tomorrow I start teaching summer school, so as of today, the count stands at 19. Yup, that's right, I'm counting. Nineteen days un...

Tonight, we had our first of what will be many movie nights in the front yard. Last summer, we started the tradition of watching movies on ...

Summer is here! Sort of. This week, I have Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday off, before I start teaching summer school. Today, we had a bus...

Carey and the girls are still gone at their campout, and Mia is asleep (has been for almost three hours.) It's 9:30pm and I'm sitti...

Today the girls left for their second weekend campout with Carey for the Y-Princesses. This time, they are going to stay in San Onofre, abo...

It is an understatement to say that today was a tiring day. It was completely and utterly exhausting. Emotionally exhausting, that is. Th...

The end is here. And I am not at all happy that my sweet, blissful, super-relaxing school mornings are over. This school year, Gracie and ...