Friday Short version: Leftover tamales, ice cream Long version: Epiphany! I made several dozen tamales before Christmas and froze a couple o...

A. was in a Walmart the other day in one of the larger towns we sometimes shop in, and on his list were both flour and corn tortillas. He du...

The moon was still so bright on Saturday morning just before sunrise that it almost hurt to look at it. Meanwhile, the sun had yet to make i...

Friday   Short version: Catfish, sausage, cheese and crackers, raw tomatoes and carrots, ice cream smorgasbord Long version: A. took Cubby a...

We were only at our rental house for two full days before we had to start the drive home*, so we left Saturday morning. We didn't try to...

On our second full day in Port Aransas, we decided that some of the children needed some decompression time in the morning. And to be honest...

Picking back up in Port Aransas, which A. had chosen specifically because we could get on a party boat to fish in the bay. Because we had ne...