Almost American

It was interesting to see the differing reactions in our house last weekend to the Queen's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. As we settled d...

Deprived of a pet since both the gerbils died within the last few months, DH and DD have taken to feeding the local vermin. Not content wit...

Personalized license plates are more of a big deal here in the USA than in the UK I think. Years ago, when I was in grad school, I had a Tur...

DS suggested this evening that we might like to celebrate Valentine's Day on Sunday because it's not a school day and we won't b...

I am one of those mothers who likes to take her kids to museums for fun and buy her kids educational toys. Fortunately, most of the time ...

I let DS play some games on my iPod Touch one time when we were waiting at the doctor's office and ever since then he begs me on a regul...

I didn't miss the US on our recent trip to the UK, except when we needed an open pharmacy at 8 on a Sunday evening when my son had a st...

We are not a sports-loving family. We don't go out to play or watch team games of any sort, and although the kids occasionally watch (Am...

Karen tagged me what feels like weeks ago for a meme about springtime that originated here . I've finally got around to it, mostly beca...

Last weekend we had some very good friends over for dinner who we hadn't seen since before Christmas and we finally got to exchange Chri...

mom/Mum and Nappy Valley Mum both blogged about kids' birthday parties recently. I blogged about food at birthday parties, but they ha...

Was woken this morning by shouts from DS: "Mommy, mommy, it snowed!" Funny - that wasn't in the forecast! They predicted clea...

DD went to a classmate's birthday party this afternoon. They had rented a local ice rink. The group had the entire rink to themselves fo...

Only one of the children is home this evening. DS asked when he got home from school if he can sleep in DD's bed instead of his own toni...

Last summer when one of the baby bunnies in our back yard narrowly avoided being hit by the weedwhacker , my daughter christened him/her Luc...

Both children are usually pretty good eaters. They like a lot of things I'm told many other children their age won't eat. But for so...

Apparently just before Christmas DD was making plans for her future. I found the following written on a small scrap of paper hidden under he...

I finally found some chocolate tree ornaments - for some strange reason they're not very easy to find over here. I put them on the tree ...

DH and I don't often go out on our own without the kids as that involves paying for a babysitter. Sometimes it's worth it though, es...

The tooth fairy doesn't have to bring her pliers to our house! In the last week, the tooth fairy has paid us two visits, and she'll ...