As I write this from a hotel in Springfield, Illinois, the Morefield family is nearly two weeks into a summer vacation that’s taken us halfway across the country in the family mini-van. The impetus for this epic sojourn was a…
The kids had a blast at Nags Head last week with Grandma and Grandpa, despite a lack of cooperation on the part of Mother Nature for the first three and a half days. Overcast skies, cold winds and even colder…
I’m way behind on this one, but what else is new? On April 24, we took the kids on a homeschooling field trip down to Fort Eustis to visit the fire station, and it turned out to be really cool. …
I always seem to start these posts off with a phrase like “impossible as it seems…” but doggone it, it really is hard to comprehend how your kids can go so quickly from tiny little newborns to…well, in Jason’s case,…
I was having a discussion with Jason the other night while he brushed his teeth and got ready for bed. He noted that the North and South Poles of Earth have actual magnetic properties. I mentioned that the Earth’s magnetic…
Scott recently told Mommy he’d like to change his name to Big Boy. “Big Boy William Morefield?” she asked, trying it out. “No,” he explained, “I need a new middle name, too.” And that would be? “How.” “HOW?, so Big…
It’s been an unusually white winter for us here in Richmond. First we got a big snowstorm before Christmas, which was exciting just by nature of its rarity. Then we followed that up with three white-outs in a row in…
Inconceivable as it seems, our Scott turns five today. That is to say, it seems to have happened lightning-fast for Mom and Dad, but from Scott’s point-of-view, it’s taken an eternity. All this last month he’s been counting down the…
Laura says I’d better update this blog soon or people will stop visiting. So for the approximately 2.3 of you who make this site a regular stop, thanks for hanging in there. We had a few anxious moments week before…
Last Thursday we flew up to Minnesota for an extended weekend visiting relatives. The boys had lots of fun riding the tire swing at Uncle Nick and Aunt Bernie’s, and visiting with cousins Ben, Sarah and Katie in St. Cloud. …
