December 25th, 2015

Everyone at my house wishes everyone a very Merry Christmas!




We all hope you have a great day and lots of good tasting food!

December 19th, 2015

Today, I’m going to talk about my friend, Caleb. Mom found him at Goodwill ages ago. We’re not sure what kind of teddy bear he is. His tag was on his arm, and Mom cut it off a long time ago.

Caleb is my teddy bear. He also is Mom’s travel bear. He is with her almost all the time. He can fit inside her purse! She has taken him on some road trips to Door County, Chicago, and even Minneapolis. He also gets to go inside when she’s shopping, or eating at a restaurant. Milton, Foster and I have to stay in the car when she’s at work, but Caleb has accompanied Mom almost every day.
Caleb fits the mini Build-a-Bear clothes, so he often has a snazzy shirt on. It’s a dinosaur shirt now. He loves dinosaurs, adventures, and the color red. He doesn’t like being outside of Mom’s purse in public—he’s worried that he’ll get lost. He is my best friend.

He also has Carabella, a bear that Mom brought home to be his friend. They don’t always get along! He says that it is nice to have someone to talk to sometimes when they’re in Mom’s purse or bag together, but sometimes it just gets crowded! They’re both kind of cranky sometimes!
I’m feeling pretty good about this blogging stretch! I hope we can keep it up! We’re working ahead, so I think that will help a lot!

December 11th, 2015

This is the second of hopefully many blog posts for Mom and I. Today, we’re going to talk about books! Mom could probably have a book blog of her very own! We could probably talk on and on about them here too!
One of my favorite authors, Blue Balliett, has a new book in her Chasing Vermeer series. It is called Pieces and Players. It is about the three children from the previous books, plus two new children, trying to find out what happened to stolen pieces of work across the globe.

Mom likes this series because the first book reminded her of a Da Vinci Code kind of book for kids, and the second one is about Frank Lloyd Wright’s buildings. (He was born in Wisconsin, so Mom has a soft spot for works by him—but he wasn’t a very nice person, so we keep our reading about him to references in kids’ books!)
Do you have a new book that you’d like to recommend?

December 4th, 2015

Long time no see again. I’m sorry—Mom works in retail, and it’s Christmas—and she doesn’t feel like doing much at all when she’s not at work. We’ve come up with an idea that will help Mom and I have ideas to keep on blogging. We’ve come up with an alphabetical list—well, the beginnings of it, to keep us with blog topics! Right now, Mom and I think we will post once a week.

This week it is A for Adelaide. Adelaide is Mom’s first American Girl doll. She found her at a Saver’s thrift store.

She loves the color red, horses, and reading. (We’re all fond of reading around here, if you haven’t figured that out!) She has silver eye—the brown in one of her eyes has disappeared, but she can see just fine!

Next week will be B for books. I’ve got my choice all lined up!

March 1st, 2015

Mom and I wanted to leave a little note here. Grandma (Mom’s mom) is all right. She did another round of chemo. At the end of this round, she got another CAT scan. There is one nodule left and it was half gone. Her cancer doctor needs to talk to another cancer doctor who is in Madison. They gave her a month off all kinds of doctors. In March, she is going to have another appointment to see what they have decided. They may give her some medicine that will hopefully stop the nodule from getting any bigger. That way she won’t have to go through any more chemo! My mom was hoping for no more cancer at all, but she will take whatever she can get.

On a more positive note, Mom and I are learning Dutch on Duolingo. Some of you might know that Mom’s interested in her genealogy. She got pretty far in learning Dutch on Livemocha a long time ago. They don’t have an ipad app, so she stopped when she got her ipad. But Duolingo does, and we’ve been having a lot of fun. Mom says that it will take some courage, but maybe some day we will post something in Dutch!

Hope you all are having a good day!

December 23rd, 2014

I am in Mom’s backpack while we wait with her Mom at in the infusion room for her chemo. Mom and I thought that we ought to stop by here for a minute and wish everyone a Merry Christmas! We both love all the Christmas cards that people’ve been sending us. Mom has a lot of them written up, but she’s got to finish it and take them to the post office! They’re going to be late, but it’s about all the Christmas spirit she can muster! (She works retail and it’s been mighty crazy!)

Talk to you all later!

October 29th, 2014

So this year seems to be the year of the crisis for our family. Maybe crisis is a strong word, but it’s certainly been one of those years.

My mom, Oliver, my plushie family, the AG dolls, and the BJD kids are all right. Mom found Atticus, a Harmony Club Cameron doll. She found Mols. The BJD kids have a dollhouse now to live in—they’re very fond of not having to live in a box! So that’s all good!

Mom’s sister has announced that she is going to have a baby! She’s going to be due sometime in June! It’s a long time away, but it’s still something that we’re planning for!

But now for the bad news—Mom’s mom—our grandma (although Mom’s not sure what she would think of us calling her that!) has been diagnosed with cancer. It’s a tumor inside her lung. It definitely is treatable and she’s been doing great with all the stuff that’s been happening. It’s four days of treatment, three weeks off, and another four days of treatment. She has to go six times. Mom has been going with her when she can. She takes me with and I sit in her backpack near the chair for emotional support. It’s done in a large room with lots of chairs and people so I stay in the backpack. She’s not a terribly big fan of all the noise and the people talking—so I’m glad I get to go with!

That’s why we haven’t been posting so much. Mom and I felt like you all should know—you’re all such nice people! We hope you’re all having a good day and we’ll talk to you soon!