Happy (Chinese) New Year!

POSTED BY JESSE I like thinking about which of Lisa’s traits will show up in which of her three daughters. Stephanie has her sense of do-good and the ability to be instantly hypnotized by a television. Michelle loves to laugh and make other people laugh. And DJ, I am almost certain, will be a slave [...]

When The Cat Is Away….

POSTED BY JESSE The mice work on school projects and go to the mall. And need a lot more chauffeuring. The division of parenting labor in the Tanner household is greatly misrepresented by this here blog (although Danny has been grumbling about how much more than me he’s been writing, so maybe the blog is [...]

Wallaby Hell

Posted by Danny Look like new, huh? So Michelle and Stephanie needed new shoes and it happened that a couple of Lisa’s college girlfriends were in town.  We met them at the mall, ate dinner and began the search.  This was probably the first time I had been responsible for purchasing kids’ shoes independently.  I always had [...]

Borrowing My Genes

Posted by Uncle Jesse Without a doubt (in my mind, at least) DJ is the child most like her mother. This makes sense, of course–being the oldest she spent 13 years by Lisa’s side, 30% more than did Stephanie and nearly twice as much as Michelle. And though we are very different in some aspects, [...]

Beach Trip: Welcome to 2011

Posted by Danny Happy New Year from DJ and the Kimmy Gibbler Experience At the beach for New Year’s Eve with four other families, 17 in all.  Are these new things for family vacations or have I just been oblivious for the past 16 years? Four people in my family, 16 towels used in three [...]

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