Family
Heartfelt updates about family milestones and everyday moments. From taking Mazie to college and annual visits to the Renaissance Festival to Swedish‑pancake breakfasts and VR outings with the kids, this category celebrates togetherness.
Excited to have the whole family heading to Brandi Carlile show in Mankato! Mazie and Tyler love her songs too!
Two urgent care visits in one vacation is a new record. (First Tyler, now me!)
Positive for strep throat.
Says a lot about Disney World that even Impetigo and Strep Throat can’t take the magic away! 😊👍🏻
Tyler (4) absolutely loves AC/DC “Hells Bells”. This doesn’t displease me. 😊
shingadooties
For years Mazie has been using this word that she made up. She decided that it meant “everything”. Quite specifically, everything. Any question she asked, if you answered with “shingadooties” it would be right. This wonderful word has no representation on the Internet so Mazie and I decided to fix that by defining it here. So a shingadooties this shingadooties post about shingadooties.
Pronunciation: shing-a-doo-ties
Etymology: Mazie made it up
Verb: Every verb possible. I shingadooties all the way to school. The dog shingadooties around the backyard.
Noun: Every noun possible. One time I got shingadooties for my birthday and it was awesome.
I love my shingadooties!
Shingadooties,
Jamie & Mazie
2023 Update: This page is still the only reference to shingadooties on the entire web. OpenAI GPT-4 also isn’t aware of shingadooties.
Tyler is really into Puff, the Magic Dragon. Still a great song.
Z-Scale model train awesomeness with Tyler.
Twelve four-year olds at our house for Tyler’s birthday party. Good this is only 90 minutes!
Awesome 8 year old question, Mazie: “Was J Jill related to J Crew?”
Just reset a Furby Boom from a gross, farty “boy” to a new girl and got “joy to the world!” from Mazie’s friend. 😀