This week is a big one for the Mirs. Willik comes back from Florida tomorrow.
Then he starts Kindergarten on tuesday. That’s gonna be a BIG change.

Then wednesday, Phoenix starts at Rainbow preschool. He went there for about 2 weeks, in the summer, since Willik had broken his wrist, but that was just [...]

Well, not exactly, but we do like finding their shells.
The last couple years, probably since Willik was about 3, we’ve been known to take a walk around the blocks near my parents’ house in Mineola, and look for shells left behind by cicadas.

Now that Phoenix is also 3, he seems to have a interest in [...]

they aren’t fighting.
That’s right. They fight nonstop, during all their waking hours. And from what I’ve been told by some wise mothers of more grown-up boys, it’s not gonna stop.
That means there are at least about 13-14 more years of this.
If it’s not shoving, it’s very loud screaming, or punching, or teasing, or [...]

It doesn’t take that much to make original, creative costumes. It takes a bit of time and effort, but no matter what one does, just the fact that it’s hand made and one of a kind, makes a costume stand out.
For the past couple years, I have began a tradition of making our boys’ [...]

Here it is, the unthinkable. All the boys in my household, have gone for the bald look.
Willik really had been asking for this haircut for a while, and I’d been resisting, because I wanted to be sure he could handle the comments people might throw at him, about him losing all the curls.
When we [...]