Yesterday for Veterans Day, the kids and I took a 2-hour drive to Tehachapi to visit one of my dearest friends Liv and her beautiful family, including the dog, the cat and the two guinea pigs.  Auspiciously, Liv and I had had our sons and daughters around the same time so Son (my eldest) and Daughter (my middle child) have the perfect playmates in her kids. (Baby Boy, my youngest, has no such pairing but being the wild, self-sufficient and fearless third child that he is, keeps up just fine with the older kids.) Tehachapi is a picturesque, rural-looking, 10 sq. mi. city nestled in the … [Read more...]