• Frozen

    A few weeks ago I filled a heart shaped muffin pan and a heart shaped cake pan with colored water and left them outside to freeze.  The next day I decorated the bush next to the deck in the back yard with frozen ornaments.  I liked the result so much…

  • Germs

    I’ve lost track of the number of times people in this house have been sick, but it will suffice to say that many of us have had the stomach flu 2-5 times in quick succession over the past month, and that we are pretty worn out from it. This week…

  • Big Kid Little People Bonanza

    Mr. Trouble on Feet is getting to be the perfect age for Little Poeple toys, I thought to myself.  I should bring those up and rotate them into the cabin room.  We have quite the collection of plastic goodness, after all, mostly the result of garage sales throughout YaYa’s preschool…

  • The Overly Long Weekend

    The weekend started Thursday night, and it ended this morning, Wednesday, when the bus finally picked the kidlets up for school.  To be fair, it was planned that the kidlets did not have school on Friday for end of the quarter and on Monday for Martin Luther King Day.  It…

  • The Snippets Book Has Arrived

    It’s true that my daily photo project chronicled on Daily Snippets sometimes bogs me down.  It sometimes makes me crazy, like when I forget to take a picture entirely for a day or two, or when I look at the clock and realize it is eleven p.m., and I haven’t taken…

  • Creative

    There are so many things I love about this girl, like how she will look through the recycling bin for all the girls clothing catalogs, like Hanna Andersson and Garnett Hill and Lands End, and examine them thoroughly, taking her time to look everything over on every page, and then…

  • Snow . . . Up Close and Personal

    Today three inches of dry, puffy snow floated down from the sky.  I was so happy to see it.  I love fresh snow, and wish we could have a little every day during winter.  If it’s going to be cold, it might as well be snowy, and I love fresh…

  • Ice Project

    Yesterday morning, while I was supposed to be folding laundry and getting the house ready to teach lessons in during the afternoon and evening, Mr. Trouble on Feet and I decided to work on a little ice project. First of all, the idea for this project is not of my…

  • The Father Daughter Ball

    We did not tell the girls that they were going to the Father Daughter Ball at the very fancy Greysolon Ballroom on Friday night until the morning of the occasion.  We knew that the Banana would go out of her gourd with anticipation for the event, which the neighborhood dads…