The day after Superstorm Sandy, the Kerstings who did not lose power, had us over for dinner, hot showers, recharging computers and baking c...

What a wicked ride that was.  Late last night Mark and I briefly stood outside on the porch in awe of the movement of the wind through the t...

By no stretch of the imagination am I making light of Hurricane Sandy, but I am going to make the absolute best of a bad situation.  Due to ...

Sophie was sent home from school early on Monday.  She had put her head down at lunch and cried, refusing to eat.  She had a low grade fever...

To get us excited for our visit to the pumpkin patch, we watched the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown for the first time this year and in the mo...

continued from Part 3, HERE Based on the events of last evening, I decided to skip ahead a bit in the telling of Sophie’s inclusion experie...

Back in the days before blogging when we were a family of 3, I sent a mass email to my friends and family.  At the time Alexander had just t...