He loves balls.  He loves balloons.  He loves wearing socks and shoes and is adamant about having them on his feet at all times, and then rushes over to the shoe basket and puts on a few pairs of progressively bigger shoes on each of his feet as well.  He…

YaYa created this yesterday afternoon.  The background and wings are watercolor, and the fairy face and body are color pencil.  I love that she combined techniques, and the dimensional effect is really neat (and maybe easier to see in person).  It’s one of my favorite pieces she’s made.

It’s that time of day, late in the afternoon, as evening begins, that time of day when it’s not quite time to start cooking a simple, quick, supper, and not quite time to have people start cleaning up the colossal mess they’ve created in the chaos of the afternoon over…

This hugglepod has turned out to be a hit, a perfect single Christmas present for all the kids to use.  Every single one of them loves snuggling in this cozy swing that hangs from the ceiling (I should really post a full picture of it.)  Even the cat loves the…

On Saturday evening I asked Mr. Sneaky Pants if he would be interested in going on a date with me to the symphony, since Dr. Peds was on call.  At first Mr. SP was quite skeptical.  He did not like the idea of having to wear “church clothes” for a…

The kidlets did not have school on Friday because it was the end of the grading quarter.  Because the temperatures are very cold, and there isn’t much snow to play in anyway, this made for a VERY long weekend full of squabbling and grouching and very rambunctious people cooped up…

Why wear just one hat when you can wear three or four, even indoors?  When it was bedtime, his head was sweaty, and he was hopping mad that we had to take all the hats off.  By that time he had procured a couple more, actually.  A small tantrum ensued.

Last spring Mr. SP helped me cut off a few slips of our ivy plant.  We had fun watching the roots grow in a glass of water, and  out on our deck on a beautiful in the fall, we planted the slips of ivy into a pot, a pot that…

To Whom It May Concern: After nearly 3 months, the Daily Snippets Blog has been updated!  Hooray!  Although I have been taking pictures almost every day for the last three months, I got terribly behind on editing and even more behind on posting the images on the Daily Snippets Blog.…

It was the wiggliest game of Jenga I’ve ever experienced.  Whether we were building, extracting, adding or collapsing the tower, there was wiggling involved.  Further, I have never met two people so excited to LOSE at Jenga.  It’s just so gratifying to knock down those towers.  The Banana and Mr.…