Texas schools were closed again yesterday for a Snow Day. If you’re imaging a scene like this picture, or like The Long Winter, remember this was a Texas snow day. The weather hovered around 32 most of the day and about six snowflakes fell. Forecasters over-predicted a winter storm for the second time in a...Continue Reading
5. It’s National Lutheran Schools Week! For one week a year, Lutheran School kids get to ditch their uniforms for to dress up like their Favorite Storybook Character and like a hippie from the ’60s. The really good news about this? If your kid goes to a Lutheran School, they probably wear a uniform the...Continue Reading
Last weekend, our family was walking down Seawall Boulevard in Galveston, looking like we had just stepped out of that website, Stuff White People Like. Mike and the kids were outfitted in outdoor performance clothes and New Balance shoes, while I wore some heavy-duty Yoga wear. We were staying at our house by the water. Our daughters...Continue Reading
The kids’ school has a Talent Show every year at the end of January. The four Hergenraders perform a “show” (using this term very loosely here) just about every night in the living room, so the promise of an actual stage and an audience not related to them sounded like the very best way to...Continue Reading
My friend, who is a vet, calls me a breedist and cringes every time I stereotype dog breeds. She insists that each dog has a unique personality and stereotyping breeds makes people overlook the individual animal. Maybe so, but I think most people are breedists. It’s just sort of conventional wisdom that Golden Retrievers are...Continue Reading
Seventeen days of vacation together gives you family stories. Family stories are those memorable little tales that happen when you least expect it. They are the delight and surprise of life not going according to plan. They are the stories your family will tell the next generation. Hergenrader Family Stories from 2013 Christmas Break 1....Continue Reading
Walking through downtown Galveston, on almost the last day of the year, we spotted this cute, handwritten sign. Even though we were all somewhere on the Virus Train of Death and not feeling very well, this stenciled sign made our family smile. Thank you, Charles Dickens, for the poetic words. They have named my blog,...Continue Reading
I am surprised at how quickly a bad bout with the flu rocked our world this Christmas. In a couple short weeks, we went from an active household running in six different directions to a hot viral mess. I went from doing Pilates several times a week, walking the dog in the sunshine every day,...Continue Reading
It happened exactly one week ago when we were eyeball deep in December to-dos. Elisabeth came down with a fever the morning of her class Christmas party. Poor kid never misses school, unlike her siblings she doesn’t even want to miss school, and now she would have to miss her Christmas party. M was working from...Continue Reading
1. The Sound of Musicis my all-time, absolute favorite movie. But, wow, you just don’t realize how slloowwwww it starts until you watch it with your three-year-old and six-year-old sons. 2. Nor do you realize how much Maria and her nun friends discuss the plusses and negatives of Maria at the Abbey. I had coerced...Continue Reading
