There was no school last week, and the kapla blocks got a good workout from YaYa.  It was fun to see her really get creative and built some amazing things.  There were several very impressive structures that the cat unfortunately knocked over before I managed to capture them, including a…

  YaYa was in charge of the leftover smorgasbord for lunch. YaYa:  Hannah, what do you want for lunch? The Banana:  A BIG plate of butter.

Dr. Peds and I had a great time watching the Prairie Home Companion live broadcast from Duluth last Saturday.  Click here to listen if you missed it.  We’ve been big fans of the show for years and years, and just get a tremendous kick out of listening to it on the…

  Someone really, really loves his peanut butter.  He’d have peanut butter at every meal if he could. Side note:  In a few hours I will be at The Prairie Home Companion, which is broadcasting from here tonight!  Listen if you are able!

On the first morning of her extended stay, Grandma Kathy and I decided it was high time to get the kidlet crew out of the house and outside, so we decided to take a walk in the woods.  YaYa elected to stay home alone because she really dislikes walks in…

I have the most magnificent, flexible mother-in-law who is filled to the brim with a low-key sense of humor.  One evening during her extended stay (which she was so very calm and relaxed about in the first place)  Dr. Peds brought home a piece of chicken to eat from the…

On Saturday evening we took a little trip just a bit up the shore to Stony Point.  It’s such a fun beach, always less crowded and full of super neat rocks and crevices.  Of course, at this time of the year we were pretty much the only people around, which…

I’ve been away from my computer that I do my photography editing on for the past few days because the ever amazing and flexible Grandma Kathy has been visiting!  She came to spend the weekend with us, and has stayed a few extra wonderful days because of some weather related…

The big kids were sliding down the ice track in the side yard, and he needed to put on his hat and watch out the window.

This week I was invited to The Banana’s Preschool to be a “guest musician” for their unit about music.  I brought all sorts of instruments with me:  my clarinet, flute, french horn, trumpet, my violin that I can’t play that has a broken string, and even my brother’s old, moldy…