Highlights from Ps & Q

Thursday was pretty busy, if not entirely eventful. We all rushed around doing our respective things throughout the day. In the late afternoon, Erin had to go off and teach a puppy class, so I incentivized the kids to help finish the cleaning the house and to...

Comedy is a strong force in our family, and our kids both really love to laugh and to make others laugh. Henry is heavy on the slapstick and out-there random humor,. Amelia, a little older, loves a good joke.We had dinner at Grandma and Pop Pop’s on Wednesday...

Tuesday morning, we had an exciting delivery. A new vacuum cleaner! That's right, the old one frankly sucked. Or more accurately, DIDN'T suck.OUCH. Sorry about that. Really no excuse for a pun of that caliber, but sometimes I can't help myself. So, moving on...Anyway,...

Monday was really a Monday. I was dragging, and even Henry woke up pretty cranky. But, we muddled through the morning and tried to get some momentum going.It was a fairly busy day, by Monday standards. Not helped by the fact that it was a beautiful fall day...the kind...

I'll open by noting that the "defeat" referred to in the headline isn't personal or specific to any of in the family. It refers to pathetic excuse for a performance my football team displayed against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Sunday afternoon.For those who don't...

It's been a busy, crazy, unpredictable year. We've been dealing with the challenges of maintaining sanity and staying above water through, as the blog's title implies, parenting, productivity and quarantine. We learned about Henry's autism spectrum disorder diagnosis...

It was Friday, and we were all pretty excited for the end of the week. Amelia was wrapping up school, I was trying to get a few last work bits done, and Henry and Erin were working with the ABA therapist. The morning went pretty smoothly, and Amelia was excited for...

Thursday was a particularly lovely fall day in Colorado. Things cooled down a little, and ushered in my my favorite time of year. Sweater weather!Fall has always been my favorite season, and I do love the layering up. Plus putting a sweater over my butt0n-down shirts...

So this is one of those days, dear reader, where I'm going to admit that it's been a pretty darn exhausting week and I don't have a whole lot to stay in today's post.Wednesday was busy, too, but the kind of busy that wasn't super interesting or the stuff of inspiring...

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, we spent time on Monday evening filling out our ballots. Tuesday would be be the big day...VOTE! We dropped off our ballots at a nearby election drop box. So that is done. We are proud and glad to have done our duty and...