Raleigh, NC   Feb. 15, 2018

Winnie-the-Pooh never did catch a heffalump. Neither have I.  Usually the heffalumps have caught me!  About 6:30 each morning I would become aware of big lumps under my covers as they woke me – by attaching my toes!  Then they moved up, sitting and bouncing on my tummy as they giggled and screamed, “time to get up.”

While I never did catch them I did get many many photographs that prove their existence.  Here’s one of my favorites of the Fearsome Threesone.

That’s Annie, Rachel, and Jake.  This blog series will introduce you to each one and let you follow their growth as I learned to survive.  First we’ll start with a couple of stories of the Time Before Heffalumps …