We’ve been doing several art projects on the deck the last few days. The weather has been beautiful, so we’ve been hiking and hiking, and smearing a lot of paint around.

I am not a seamstress. Most likely I will never be a seamstress. I can use a sewing machine to sew paper into a mean little book, but for the most part, material really makes me queasy. My mother, on the other hand, is marvel with her sewing machine. Really.…

The Banana is finally adjusting to grass. Earlier this summer, whenever she was placed on the lucious green stuff, she’d scream and scream. I think the blades of grace irritated her skin a little or something, and she really let everyone in the neighborhood know about it. Lately I have…

A couple of years ago, my good friend gave me the idea of celebrating half birthdays in our home since we have a lot of birthdays that come extremely close to major holidays. I thought it was an interesting idea, and the more I thought about it, the better it…

Mr. Perpetual Mess and Ms. Crazy Preschooler are seriously taken with blue ice cream complete with mixed in M+M’s. Last night we took a long walk to get some ice cream down by the lake. It was a beautiful night and there were tons of people milling around. We saw…

Veggies taste so much better after they’ve had a little altitude.

On our way to church this morning, I was herding everyone into the van. Ms. CP was buckling herself into the backseat. I had just secured The Banana into her rear-facing carseat in the middle on the driver’s side, and I walked around the car to buckle in Mr. Perpetual…

He’s been up to his usual tricks. Can’t you just see the gleam in his eye!

It has been a bad day. It started out with profuse whining at the crack of dawn, and the whining never really did stop. Mr. Perpetual Mess was just devious from the get go, and managed to figure out how to climb over the gate I use to trap him…