Although I don't personally recommend this to anyone -- go have your tonsils removed with red hot pliers, it'd be more fun -- one unintended benefit of a sick-for-nearly-...

In September, we in Minnesota had summer, a real feat since the traditional summer months were all cold. In October, we mostly had something that looked terrible except f...

Oddly enough, this is one of the most common questions asked in our house these days. Mostly the ants are little, tiny, ghostly looking things about the size of flake of ...

We're home and healthy now!! And the best part about the last night in the hospital: the nurses forgot to give Benjamin one dose of his medicine in the middle of the nigh...

Each fall squash, pumpkins, and gourds fill the back end of trailers, pick-ups and little vegetable stands. But since money was tight the past four years, I have only bee...

This week was like a backwards movie title: Two Funerals and a Wedding. The funerals were uneventful but the wedding was the first for both boys in several years. Natural...

Something new seems to have swept through our family in the wake of last week's illness . Or perhaps it's a continuation. It's hard to tell. We thought for a couple of da...

Timothy came in the house yesterday afternoon holding a finger that was covered with blood. Naturally, I was curious. "What happened to you?" "An ant bit me!" "An ANT did...

A couple of years ago, Oldest discovered the My Sister is a Vampire series. He laughed his way through it, and I was glad he enjoyed reading. Then Youngest found it. To p...

But we don't think it's the Swine Flu. More like Warthog Flu. Or maybe Wild Boar Flu. With tusks. The little one seems to have brought it home from preschool, last Wednes...