I've been seeing a lot of posts on Facebook lately where people my age are now sending their kid off to college.

Me, I'll be driving Ethan over to 1st grade next week.

That's how it goes, I guess. They marry at 24, I got married at 30. They had kids right away, we had five years with a cat before we started planning a family. It adds up.

( From now until school starts again in the fall )

( Yes, I know, posted on Wednesday..life gets busy )

( How Mondays go lately )

( Some Carissa stories )

Today Ethan and I managed to make the new Hot Wheels track work.

It's the Speed Racer Casa Christos 5000 track, which is a loop that has a couple of motorized rollers at the bottom that will propel the car around the track - including an inverted loop ( Read more... )

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From a family outing last month

A story from Diana, of a conversation in the minivan, on the way to daycare ( Read more... )

Today was Ethan's first day of school ( Read more... )