In conjunction with her extreme love of outerwear, The Banana also really loves wearing things on her head. One of her favorite games is “put the hat on, take the hat off” which we play relentlessly until I am so tired of putting the hat back on her head that…

We like to call this “space alien hair.”

The more than 75 year old windows in the sunroom upstairs where my computer is desperately need to be replaced. We’re having a cold snap in Minnesota right now, evidence of which is the beautiful artistic frost paintings on our windows in the sunroom. (The sunroom roasts in the summer…

I’ve been busy taking pictures to try to use for my Christmas cards. These are all images that did not make the card. I actually like some of them better than the images on the card, but for various reasons they didn’t fit with the other images on the card…

Happy Birthday Mr. Sneaky Pants! It was a special treat that Gramma Robbie and Grandpa Ron could stop by for a quick party before they left to drive back to North Dakota this morning! Mr. Sneaky Pants has never had the opportunity to share his birthday with any extended family.…

Thanksgiving is one of my very most favorite holidays, and I was so excited about this one because my parents, brother and sister-in-law were driving across the state of Minnesota and halfway across the state of North Dakota visit our house! I had a grand master plan of being organized,…

Auntie Dot and her friend Don are here visiting for the weekend. After spending all Friday in great anticipation of her arrival and then having to actually go to bed before Auntie Dot arrived, Mr. Sneaky Pants and Sarah were elated to wake up and find her here this morning.…

We’ve recently discovered the Fancy Nancy books. I don’t know how we managed to miss them for so long! They’ve been quite inspiring for Miss Sarah, who is very into accessories and creative clothing choices. And they’ve been a good reminder to me to chill out about the clothing choices…

Mr. Sneaky Pants cuddles up with his stuffed friends to watch Signing Time on the computer in our bedroom while one sister is away at kindergarten and one is napping in her crib. The zig zag afgan is a special relic that my Grandma Edna made me when I was…

Sarah brought home a picture of a turkey last Friday with instructions from her teacher that she was to decorate it with anything we had around our house and bring it back to school on Monday. Sunday afternoon, I went out to do some shopping by myself, and before I…