Oh the power of Minivan Mom! This is my car prior to leaving North Dakota for Minnesota with a carload of mostly my husband’s toys from childhood, and a few of his Physical chemistry notes from college, which were, by the way, very heavy to carry into the new house,…

During my extremely rapid trip to North Dakota and back to Wisconsin over the past two and a half days, I was blessed to visit, although briefly, both of my grandmothers. I sorted and hauled boxes out of Grandma Jan’s basement where I had been storing a load of stuff…

While I’m moving this week all persons under four feet of height are residing at Grandma and Grandpa’s in North Dakota. Everyone is thrilled about this, I think. I’m guessing there will be a lot of recreational driving of heavy machinery on the farm this week.

Look close and you will see them on her nose. I remember having itty bitty nose freckles between the ages of five and nine too.

Jenna has a beautiful voice! I had a lot of fun accompanying her when she sang at a school music festival a few weeks ago. Almost every week she came to our house she brought a bag of books from her house to read out loud. This was a very…

Of all our babysitters, Elizabeth has been around the longest and tortured by my children the most. She’s come two or three times a week ever since Mr. Perpetual Mess was about six weeks old. She’s strolled with them to the park, the zoo, the library, the train bridge, all…

Meet the first of our three magnificent babysitters. This week is the last week they will be watching my chaotic trio, and we have appreciated them SO much. Not only is this fine teenager responsible and caring, she plays with my kids and pretends with them, puts them in time…

Watch Out! Seriously. A gleeful crash into my nice new minivan.

I’m not sure if that’s how you spell irrisitible or not. Regardless, that’s what this little urchin is of late. How can you resist giving her a big squeeze? It might be mommy goggles, but I sure can’t! I can’t resist taking her picture either! She sits up and stays…