http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:57:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This won't be a very exciting post. Fair warning :) Over the summer our kids spent plenty of time away from home and it brought something to my attention about (pre)teenagers and their cleaning habits. Teach them to pick up after themselves and to offer to help out around wherever ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/sending-kids-away/ A couple of weeks ago, I went outside to close up the chicken coop and noticed eggs in the nesting boxes! I asked Greg if he put eggs from the refrigerator into the boxes and he promised that he hadn't. I excitedly ran in to grab Alli and the camera. ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/sneaky/ Originally written March 22,2010. I know some time has passed. This post was mostly written, I'm not sure why I just didn't post it then. Maybe I was waiting until I got back. Anyway, I'll write more about this another time. On Thursday we went to Houston for the rodeo ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/interesting-2/ After a long haitus (almost a year with sporadic posting), it is time to clean out the cobwebs and shake out the dust. It wasn't just a lack of posting. With the exception of a few, I pretty much stopped reading other people's blogs. Facebook is instantly gratifying. A place ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2010/08/dust-and-cobwebs/ Chickens! It all started a few months ago (around Easter). Well, if we are really going to get accurate, it started over a year or two ago when I thought it sounded like a great idea to have fresh eggs. The only problem? There were no chicks to be had and ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/here-there-be-pt-1/ I know to our friends and relatives a little more north than us, this may seem like a small deal. Something to scoff at even, "You call that snow? We've had 20" in the past two weeks!". But to us, this is huge! If it snows here, it is usually ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/snow/ So, I have a New Year's resolution to actually post on here. Facebook took over for a while because it seemed so convenient. Almost everyone is in the same place. The only problem is that it has too many random people. You'll be getting mostly pictures and Allison stories. Nathan ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/under-the-bridge/ Because we have watched the Ghostbusters at least twice a week for the past few weeks, I thought it would be a fun theme for Allison's birthday party. Invitations were designed and handed out. I scoured the internet for fun game ideas and tried to decide how to decorate a ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/quick-party-recap/ How many of you love Calvin and Hobbes? There are certain things my kids do that will remind me of specific strips. I'm sure all parents who have read it feel this way. That Bill Waterson really knew what he was doing. As I was uploading pictures from my camera ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/calvinized/ Usually I am slow when it comes to Halloween costumes. I wait just a little too long before asking what the kids want to be and then spend the night before Halloween (sometimes the minutes before it's time to leave for whatever festivities there are planned) putting the finishing touches ... http://www.runwiththefishes.com/blog/index.php/2009/11/coraline/