He might not talk much, but he’s always paying attention, and he has some very effective ways to get his point across.  It has been fun having Mr. Trouble on Feet with me at music class for the past two months.  Today was our last class until fall, and he…

These days Mr. Trouble on Feet relishes being outside.  Nearly every waking hour of the day he is asking to go outside, signing “boots” and “coat” and pointing out the window in a most dramatic fashion.  In addition to swinging and playing with the chalk and jumping in any available…

We aren’t  sports fans around here.  We just aren’t.  By nature of just being our children, the kidlets have had very, very limited exposure to baseball.  In fact, if they’ve had any exposure to baseball, it probably came in gym class at school.  I looked out the window on Saturday…

The chalkboard has returned to it’s prominent spot on the back deck.  I love looking out the window or walking up to the back door and seeing colorful messages and all sorts of pictures covering it.  Mr. Trouble on Feet had the best time making marks with the chalk and…

She’s persuasive, that girl of mine.  When she has an idea, she usually has a plan as to how to make the idea happen.  For example, tonight she’d already eaten supper.  When I got done teaching I reheated the leftover supper my kidlets hadn’t consumed.  There was not a lot…

  Today is a beautiful day:  fifty degrees, cloudy, foggy, and damp.  I like it much better than this ridiculous summer weather we have been having in March!  Sixty eight degrees and humid does not belong in March, although it makes some people very happy. There are reasons why I…

    Last fall we purchased two tickets for Coppelia, the spring production of the Minnesota Ballet. at the silent auction that is an annual fundraiser for the biggest kidlets’ school.  Although my husband is NOT a ballet appreciator, which is such a shame since we really do have a…

She spent the better part of an hour late Saturday afternoon sliding down the last icy patch in the yard (rapidly disappearing with the sixty degree temperatures) singing in a boisterous, pirate voice that she was Pirate Girl, Queen of the Sea.  It was such a contrast to her little…

You know you are really in the mix of the family when someone hands you your very own perfectly sized shovel.  It’s his current favorite outside item, and he spends just as much time shoveling water as he does snow during these disturbingly warm days.

  If these dads look tired to you, it’s probably because they’d been up all night for several consecutive nights building and finishing AWANA race cars for their kids.  The annual AWANA race is quite the anticipated event around our church, and the dads really go all out.  At least…