Ya Ya found out on Friday that she received a bronze medal at the state level for a PTA contest for that story she wrote last fall about a princess who didn’t have to eat her vegetables.  She is over the moon excited and has a very proud Mama.  I…

Some friends gifted me with a pot of blooming daffodils after the last preschool music class last week, and I am greatly enjoying them, blooming away in all their cheeriness on the dining room table.  They smell good, and look even better.  There is something special about early spring flowers:…

Me:  Hey, Buddy, it looks like that sock has a big hole in it.  Why don’t you throw it in the garbage and run upstairs and get a nice, new warm sock? Mr. Sneaky Pants:  NOOOOOOOO! Me:  Your toes are sticking right out honey. Mr. SP:  No!  Don’t ever throw…

We brainstormed different “parts” of a cat:  head, eyes, mouth, ears, tummy, legs, tail, and then she drew a magnificent cat.  I love it and I want to hang it up, but she told me I could not keep it.  She was giving it to someone else.  When Dr. Peds…

I sent my son to children’s church during the first service this morning wearing a red sweater and nice khaki pants.  When I picked him up, the entire knee of his pants were missing. Me:  Honey, what happened to your pants? Mr. SP:  Huh?  My pants? Me:  Sweetie, there’s a…

The Banana loves big girl braids, and asks for them all the time.  Here they are, messy, at the end of the day after a nap.  They’re eensy weensy tiny little braids, but they make her feel special, and I think they make her look Norwegian.

Today The Banana and Mr. Sneaky Pants and I went to the grocery store after music class.  We were thrilled to find lots of brown paper sacks of “banana bread bananas.”  You know, the speckled and freckled bananas that are dumped in brown paper sacks and sold at an extreme…

“Mama, I HATE that I’m getting old because now no one can answer ANY of my questions!”   She was grouchy that she had asked me about ten questions in the last two days that I just didn’t have answers for. The questions were along the lines of, “Mama, how…

They actually give each other nose kisses.  It’s true.  They’ll rub and snuggle and purr and ooooh and ahhhhh at each other until Brutus gets fed up with all that smothering love and scares Mr. SP with his fangs.  Then they go their separate ways for approximately 5 minutes before…

I arrived home after a purely glorious late afternoon walk down to some of my favorite waterfalls, which were rushing with more gusto than I’d ever seen them before, truly a sight to behold.  On the deck I found carpenters busy at work with hammers and nails, making their own…