This summer, my mother (Nana) and I took the boys on a trip to visit family from my childhood hometown of Sonora. While we were down there, I realized that the entire time I lived there, I was only 90 miles from one entrance to the Mexican border. For some reason, this suddenly [...]

Professional Whistle Blower

Money is an obsession in our house.  We all want to make more and spend less, right?  Well, Biscuit’s new interest is learning the name of the people on every coin and dollar bill.  His face was quite amusing when he brought me a peso and a wheat penny and told me someone gave him funny money [...]

Kids seem to have their own special language.  I call it “kiddish”.  Many times you’ll need a mythical kiddish dictionary just to translate what they are saying!  Here’s some funny defintions for you:

Child

Word in Kiddish

English Translation

Used in a sentence

Biscuit

um

of

Of, of, I don’t know!

Biscuit

coffee

copy

Stop coffee’n me!

Wrangler

power cracker

chiropractor

Did the power cracker break your neck?

Wrangler

lindo

window

Close the lindo!

Cowlick

dire duck

firetruck

There goes [...]

President’s Day was obviously the hot topic in Kindergarden today. So, when Biscuit arrived home, he told me about all the presidents he learned about today. After pondering why people that aren’t presidents get the day off from work while everyone else must attempt to function as usual without the service of banks, mail service [...]