I am not smarter than a fifth-grader. Really.

We’ve had a Wii since last February. One of the games we recently added to our collection is Big Brain Academy. You do not need “book” knowledge to play this game. It consists of puzzles, memorization exercises, simple computing, logic problems. During the actual tests, little reading […]

Beatrix celebrated her first birthday this past Saturday. We helped.

The cake’s theme reflected Beatrix’s nickname, Kitten, and her middle name, Violet:

Every guest at her party under the age of twelve wanted to eat the cat’s face. Consequently, I was forced to cut pieces around the head so nobody would feel […]