• In Honor of Shoes

    We took a trip to the children’s museum this morning because it was a little rainy out, and very, very wet. The main exhibit right now was all about shoes. It was so neat. There was a giant walk-in playhouse fashioned like the old woman in the shoe might have…

  • Commending Imagination

    At the crack of dawn this morning: Mr. Perpetual Mess (from his bed): Mom! Mama! Mommy! MOM! Me: What? (spoken groggily, oh so groggily from my bedroom) Mr. PM: Want to get out! Me: Honey, you can get out of bed. I took down your gate. Mr. PM: Can’t. Can’t…

  • Such a Nerd

    Books. They get me in trouble. I haven’t splurged on a nighttime read of a good book for at least two months now because of the mess of moving. Yesterday I loaded everybody up in the minivan and we drove down to the main library, which has a huge youth…

  • Obsessed with Steps am I

    While hiking on Friday I discovered these steps at a local park, and I couldn’t resist. The difficult thing was not keeping The Banana on the steps like I thought it would be, but rather keepign the rocks out of her chunky little grip so she didn’t eat them.

  • The Most Wonderful Scented Hike

    The weather was beautiful yesterday. We went hiking at a local park along a small river. I love the sound of rushing water. The air smelled so wonderful because the forest had many enormous century-old cedar trees.

  • In the Backpack

    Although it is very heavy to carry around The Banana in the hiking backpack, she loves it up high where she can see everything that is happening. Last Wednesday I took the kids on a hike and strapped her in. The backpack fits Dr. Peds a lot better than me…

  • Fast

    We’ve got pedaling down. It’s steering and stopping we have trouble with still. Mr. Perpetual Mess likes to ride this trike as fast as possible across the driveway and crash into “Treasure Island” (a circle of grass with two very large scraggley pine trees in the middle of the roundabout…

  • Aggressive, Energetic Geese

    I have a secret love of poultry. Not just to eat. I think ducks, chickens and geese in particular are just wonderful creatures. I can sit and watch them all day. Our neighbors told me about the duck pond in one of the very old cemeteries near my house, and…