Outnumbered and Overjoyed

Maddux had her last soccer game this weekend. She and her team came really far and had a great last game, complete with one goal by Mad Do...

So the kids and I did some extra driving last week as we went on our 'field trips'. As always, I told the kids to bring a book in t...

What a fun week! The kids had early release all week to accommodate parent-teacher conferences. That means they got home just after noon, al...

So the other night we had an Eliason standard of 'summer' vegetables sauteed with potatoes and chicken sausage. As usual, at least o...

It's a tradition for us: the weekend a full week before Halloween we get dressed up and head down to L5P for some over-the-top Halloween...

Not the 'last' last game, but the last one of the regular season anyway. Eli and the Mudcats finished strong this weekend with a fou...

Last night the four of us drove to a little college about an hour north of us for a very special family date night. Preservation Hall Jazz...

Maddux is still loving every second of soccer. We will definitely be playing this sport again. This morning, Maddux and her team progresse...

Tonight we had another late-late baseball game. (When the first pitch is thrown AFTER bedtime, I consider it to be late-late.) I suggested o...

Eli is thick into baseball season these days. We have at least two games each week and a few practices on top of that. (Truth be told, we ...

We were very happy to travel to Watercolor this last weekend. School schedules have made it difficult for us to get in our usual trips there...

Over the summer, I enrolled Eli and Maddux in gymnastics once a week. They really liked it, and with Eli's feet, the barefoot activity f...

Maddux has been participating in soccer for the last few weeks, practicing on Tuesday nights, and this weekend she had her first game. So f...

Eli had his first game in the 'big leagues' last night; his current team is the Mudcats. This league has faster pitches, the potenti...

Eli and Maddux both had the opportunity of participating in Boosterthon this year, and boy were they excited. Eli moved into a new time ...

A little over a month ago, Eli and I saw a sign for a kids' triathlon at the end of August. Eli asked about the event and decided he wan...

As usually happens this time of year, I'm shocked at how quickly we got here. How quickly we went from diapers to baseball pants. How qu...

Instead of a birthday party, this year Eli opted to invite a few baseball-minded friends to join him at a weekend Braves game. He picked thr...

Maddux has only been in school for one week, but already it's been full of excitement! On the first day, Maddux came home and told us ...

At the last minute we were able to fly Grandma Cathie to Atlanta for a quick visit. As luck would have it, she flew in just in time for the ...