Reading before bed The view from my hotel room in Petoskey, where I was doing another book event. I miss Pete so much when I'm gone. Life...

At school, I have seen, with my own eyes, Pete pick up toys at the end of playtime. When we ask him to do that he dumps everything out. ...

I've been a little behind on Pete's blog, for no good reason. We've mainly hung around home. Our summer schedule is pretty relaxing:...

Pete got a swing set! It was so expensive! Mat says that it will be worth it if Pete plays on it for 1.5 hours a day until he's 15. He...

I drove back from Seaside on a Saturday night, in a thunderstorm, and then on Sunday Mat and I continued to move All Our Junk from one...

We closed on the new house on May 12, and went to Seaside (I was teaching at a Writer's Conference) on May 14. It was a busy weekend! The...

We are moving! Just down the street. We need a bigger house so Mat and I can both have offices, and I want a smaller yard (we are tired...

Spring semester always seems busier than fall, even though it's technically not. Anyway, we were busy, and time flew by. And now school...

I'm not sure what happened from March 25 to April 13. That's what happens when I go too long without updating the blog! With his Tonka...

Pete's birthday (March 25) fell on a Saturday, so we invited every kid he knows in Auburn to come to our house. I had the cake and...