Our neighbors have an enormous orange tree that grows right at the property line.  All winter long, the tree drops oranges into our driveway, which makes a disgusting mess every time Seanie or his brother squishes one under his car tires.  Every time I walk outside, I kick the oranges into our lawn or back into our neighbor's yard ( Read more... )

Victoria, British ColumbiaFor some reason, all cruise ships departing from the US have to drop anchor at an international port at least once per trip. (I’m sure there’s a very good reason, I just don’t know it.) Our foreign stop was in Canada, at Victoria. This is all I knew about Victoria as we departed the boat: Butchart Gardens, one of our ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I woke super, super cranky. Blame it on that special time of the month and a killer pain in my lower back, which may or may not have been cramps. But as I was stomping around the house getting ready for school, I was practically breathing fire like a hungry, crabby dragon.

As Seanie said, he knew that something was wrong, and when ( Read more... )

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