The Ringstrom Family

Avery calls this “pickleball.” It’s too cute to correct.

Sam, today, peeking down my shirt (just before I told him how rude that is): “Why don’t I have those huge things?” (I wonder if he knows what “huge” means…) Avery, pitching a fit over having to use the “big” potty instead of her little potty seat: “You have to send the big potty back […]

There’s a book about Flat Stanley, who gets flattened and mailed (and eventually returned to 3-D you’ll be glad to hear.) In honor of Flat Stanley, the kids all made their own and we mailed ours to California, where my writer friend Katie lives. She mailed Stanley back with a postcard, stickers, a letter about […]

Sam, all dressed up with his clip-on tie, for his winter concert Avery, feeling sick Feeling better Aww. Best buds. Avery at Sam’s school carnival, with animal display and painted face Sam, plate-spinning at his carnivalAvery’s first shiner.