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Chip fell sound asleep after lunch in the middle of total chaos. I thought you'd like that. (There's more. Wait for it.) First there is this, from right now up at Sarah's house during a family spaghetti night following the Christmas parade: I told Caroline that since...

I can't tell you how nice it is to have the kids in the kitchen-- and exclaiming about the snow, the mountains, the trees, the snow-- and then after lunch to go to a basketball game in the "big school" gym  ( the fifth grade cousins were playing and Ivy and Lani...

I think we did it-- the place next door is done and it's so nice that I want to live there. On Monday I would have bet a boat that it would not be ready for the arrival of the Christmas crew tomorrow -- my son and his family-- but it is. My list is pretty short: food,...

Chip has been my best friend for years. It was just the two of us in Alaska, with no family and I wanted a big one here so far from where we were from, so we had all these kids (5), and he was busy at the lumberyard everyday, all day, and I was at home holding down...

It was a Merle Haggard kind of day. When I told the carpenter and my husband that I had my radio show today and could only work this morning and there was a lot to do still-- they laughed, and suggested that I had higher priorities, such as dusting and setting up the...