Callie Feyen

Minutes before these pictures were taken, Harper was rolling on the floor screaming because we wouldn’t let her wear her tennis shoes with the dress she’s wearing.  Meanwhile, we were telling Hadley to stop pulling her dress over her head. I got them to smile by standing behind Jesse and yelling, “POOP!” as he took the picture. You do what… View Post

The girls’ favorite Christmas book is A Charlie Brown Christmas, which I don’t mind at all.  Very cute story, and there are buttons you press throughout the story that play the songs and characters’ voices. We also have the movie which the girls have been enjoying all week.  And on Saturday, we took them to The Black Rock Center for… View Post

When I was a teacher (here comes that blue tuxedo again), I would sometimes post a picture on the board and have the students use it as a writing prompt.  National Geographic magazine was fabulous for this sort of thing.  Kids came up with all kinds of stories with those pictures…..some were more appropriate then others. So I’m going to… View Post

It’s not that the girls were naughty Sunday.  There were just circumstances that occurred that led Jesse and I to want to pull our hair out.  Like Harper’s exclamation, “Mommy!  I found the stamps!” minutes after she’d just had a bath and put on her Sunday best.  Minutes before we were to leave for church.  It is amazing the little… View Post

Last year I wrote about a friend of Hadley’s that I named Bud.  He’s still around and I’m learning what a nice guy “Bud” is.  Certainly not the kind of person you should make rumors about regarding the number of toes he has. For example, Hadley told me the story about the time Bud picked her hat up for her… View Post