Monthly Archives: July 2011

Since I’m going to be traveling alone with the kids, I decided that, not only will Katherine be traveling on her own two feet (her brother takes her place in the backpack), but I’m going to be making her into … Continue reading →

Here’s an interesting chart compiled by a professor at Cornell: This goes a fair ways in explaining the odd political behaviour of a good many Americans. Source: ‘Reconstituting the Submerged State: The Challenges of Social Policy Reform in the Obama … Continue reading →

The kids have been testing boundaries recently and, while some of it is as unpleasant as it sounds, some of it is also wonderful.  Nathaniel’s become much more of a little wiggle worm, propping himself up to look around at … Continue reading →

Celebrating Independence Day has gotten quite a bit more complicated as I got older.  First I married a Canadian, and thus have to keep both July 1st and July 4th in mind, and now I’m living in the country from … Continue reading →

Katherine counting her toes. Erin

The kids seem to have picked up some germs with their embassy visit earlier this week (germs?  in a place crawling with little kids needing passports and visas?  no way), so we’ve been dealing with whiny, stuffy kids the last … Continue reading →