My alarm clock starts ringing at 5:00 a.m. every school morning, but I don’t actually realize it’s been ringing until the eighth time I press snooze, at approximately a quarter after six.  This is not a problem, because trust me, NO ONE else in the house hears my alarm going…

We’ve been at this job of potty training for a few days now.  He’s ready.  He’s a willing participant.  He LOVES using the ipad while he’s waiting for something to happen on the potty. We’ve had zero success so far.  By zero success, I mean we’ve had 208 accidents and…

The menu for breakfast in the bathtub was supposed to be Swedish Pancakes, but at the last minute Dr. Peds surprised everyone with a box of donuts!  Exciting!  One even had pudding in the middle, which is my favorite kind of donut.  I snatched that one up.  I hadn’t had…

He LOVES it when YaYa is home.  This is because YaYa, who he refers to as “SSSSSSSSSSSsssssssssssss” pretty much gives him everything he wants whenever he wants, and is up for playing whatever he wants with him.  When he starts to walk slow, she lets him climb on her back…

There are a lot of technical things wrong with this image, but I LOVE it anyway.

  It’s most certainly NOT an original idea, as thankful trees are all over the internet, but I am so happy that this project that I’ve been wanting to do for a couple of years actually got done this year!  And we all really liked it, so I am hoping…

On Saturday the weather was amazing, and we were very grateful because we had done hardly any yard work all throughout fall season.  There was much to do to get ready for winter around the yard, so after lunch Mr. TOF went down for a nap and we put our…

  In our house there are mandatory showers on Sunday mornings and Wednesday mornings.  This morning The Banana was standing in the kitchen debating about what hairstyle she’d like for kindergarten.  She asked for princess braids. To make princess braids I braid the sides of her hair and join them…

Inspired by my friend Kristell, who served fresh oregano from her backyard on baked potatoes when we visited her in Montana last year, at the beginning of the growing season last spring I planted two pots of herbs:  oregano and rosemary, which happen to be my two favorite seasonings.  Not…

YaYa spent the better part of the weekend creating this amazing drawing of B6 and B7 Fairy apartments and Fairy Condos.  I wish you could see this up close, because the teensy tiny details are truly remarkable, and everything in the drawing is thought out and has a purpose.  There…