{this moment} A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. Spons...

Proof that Pugsley Addams is now driving age and at large... (click on the photo to enlarge for detail)

...well, how Dominic's older brothers deal with it, anyway...

Farewell, Bertram Chanticleer! Favored fowl, cock'rell most dear; With crimson comb and feathered charm, Thou pompous prince of...

I am joining Ginny today in a create-your-own version of the funnies on this site (I've been seeing these on Pinterest and having a go...

For obvious reasons, my kids don't tell me everything. For obvious reasons, I have learned not to ask too many questio...

Gabriel, to Gemma:  "Blueberries are little, blue and round, and when you squeeze them, their little purple guts come out." My b...

  Hey, y'all in there?   Dang, it ain't latched...if only I had hands...   Stop pointin' that thing at me an' come on ov...

I no longer bother to ask about these things.  I just leave the clean laundry on the dresser.

Saxon Math is really starting to get on Una's nerves...

I was looking for Adrian and Dominic.  I could hear them giggling away in their room.  So I go in, and they are both knocking about under Ad...

Una was in the office on the computer, looking up some of the internet-linked science topics in an Usborne book.  I sat on the sofa helping ...

I could really be butchering the Latin there, but "Bread for Art's sake" is what I'm going for. This is what happens when...

...when your dust-bunnies look like this:

Okay. So maybe that's not really how it happened...

"So, y'know what a triceratops sits on?" "No, what?" "Its tricera-bottom!" Have you any idea how hard it i...

Patrice at Rural Revolution offered this glimpse into why our country is in such bad shape!

Thanks, Jennifer, for emailing this to me!

With many thanks to Patrice Lewis at Rural Revolution for the great image.

So read the caption of this photo my sister sent of my nephew, Thomas. Actually, I think he'll be fine in the long haul, as his very be...