It doesn’t happen that often to me, but in the last couple of weeks I’ve managed to bump into several people who really dislike children.  Or maybe it’s not that they necessarily dislike children, it’s more that they are made extremely uncomfortable by the presence of children.  For the record,…

They came home from school and we headed to Hartley Park to climb some trees.  Sadly, we hardly managed to get out to our favorite set of climbing trees all summer long, so we were ready for some heavy duty climbing.  Mr. Trouble on Feet didn’t climb much, but he…

YaYa has an ability to get her brother and sister to accomplish daring things, like submerse themselves from head to toe in freezing cold water, or in this case, jump off a rock ledge into deep water and swim across to a sand bar.  (They were all wearing life jackets…

First of all, I searched everywhere, scoured the whole house in fact, looking for an in focus picture of myself at age 15 or 16, and this is all I could come up with!  I am certain my mother must have some in focus pictures of me as a teenager,…

I spent The Banana’s birthday eve scrounging around and scouring every nook and cranny of the house until 3:00 A.M. looking for her birthday tablecloth, which I never did manage to locate even though I am certain I saw it in its regular resting place at Mr. Trouble on Feet’s…

Oh the Happiness to be found when their are 200 million small rocks just waiting to be hurled in the water, and every rock presents its own bout of excitement.

Out of the blue, The Banana said, “Mama, if I had to choose between picking crabapples all day and blowing my nose all day, I think I would have to choose the crabapples.”

We start school a bit later than lots of other places, which I don’t mind at all even though it means we get out of school later in the spring.  After months of all of us sleeping in until 8:00 (8:30 even some days!) I knew we needed to spend…

We’ve used the last few days of summer, which Dr. Peds had off of work, to pack in a little bit of swimming time at the rocky beach each night.  It seemed the perfect thing to do before bed after all the warm afternoons.