I’ll be away from my computer for the rest of the week.  On Monday I’m flying to California to visit some of my favorite people:  my friend Siri and her tribe.  I’m packing my carry on and my camera, and I’ll hopefully be back with lots of fun images and…

Ya Ya had the week off from school for Winter Break, and it went well.  We slept in each morning a bit longer than usual.  Ya Ya got up and watched Little House on the Prairie nearly every morning before I got down to make breakfast.  Auntie Dot gave her…

It turns out that she lays golden eggs, and is very valuable to the King, Queen and Princess, so they pay their favorite knight a lot of gold, bags and bags of gold, to keep her safe and protected.  She lays many golden eggs on her birthday. She’s a happy…

We were at the children’s museum, actually, when The Banana was inspired to whip out this lovely drawing.  The creation of people on paper has been a recent and fun development for her.  This one is one of my favorites:  the hair, the interesting mouth and eyes, the short little…

I scrounged around until I found 33 candles for this beautiful cake that our friends from up the street brought over.  We couldn’t celebrate Dr. Peds on the actual day of his birthday because he was busy working at the hospital, so we had our friends over yesterday for a…

The Banana looks at me reading in my bed one morning.  ” Mama, how come you are reading all the time?  ALL THE TIME.  And Daddy doesn’t even know how to read?”

Mr. Sneaky Pants was beyond excited to find a ring in his valentine bag from preschool.  Better yet, it was an edible ring, made mostly of sugar.  Rings are a very big deal around here because they are used as pirate treasure.  There tends to be a lot of quarreling…

The Kidlets haven’t ever asked for commercialized Valentines, so we make them ourselves, which means that throughout  the past week my office has been a very busy Valentine factory.  Ya Ya made her valentines for school.  Mr. SP painted some hearts with string dipped in red and purple paint to…

At half past three I told my husband I should probably start making soup for supper.  He rolled his eyes at my lack of enthusiasm, and then we stared at the youngest kidlets who were running and sliding and running and sliding on the hardwood floor, energy in terrific abundance.…

He discovered Dr. Ped’s ipod touch.  Tapping away happily, his contentment grew when Brutus climbed up for a big snuggle.