In case you haven’t noticed the similarities: Archuleta = Obama Mercado = Clinton Cook = McCain Mercado is defeated…. will it be an Archuleta/Mercado ticket up against Cook? Is it prophecy? You heard it here first!

Yesterday, Hannah had her first Feis (pronounced fesh), an Irish Dance competition. We were up at 5 a.m. to brave the traffic and crowds we knew would be lining up at the Queen City Feis in Cincinnati. We got there in plenty of time (6:30a.m.) for our 7:00 registration. We managed to push our way [...]

Hannah was telling me about the list of items the teacher requested for a granola recipe. “It says shelled sunflower seeds but I think she means unshelled.” “Oh, so she wants the shells on?” I asked. “No, shells off.” she replied. “Shelled, means shells off sweetie.” “Oh” she said, but she had that look on [...]

We started the day by giving Hannah her birthday present from us and then we did the regular Saturday morning drill, guitar lessons, dance lessons and errands. In between all that we bought Hannah a present from Noah and then just tried to make our errands fun while killing time till her party. So what [...]

My daughter is about to celebrate her 9th birthday and I know this is going to cause some issues with the 12 year old son who thinks she gets too much attention already. (They get equal attention but you know how kids are). So, this morning I attempted a preemptive strike with individual discussions with [...]