I hereby declare that having Halloween fall on a Thursday is the trickiest thing ever.  Thursday falls after three jam packed busy weekdays and is on a teaching day for me.  It felt too early to prepare things last weekend, but of course once the week started, there was no…

The kid bookshelves around here are chaos all the time!  I organize them, and three days later:  chaos.  I organize again:  chaos.  Although organizing books is about the only thing I enjoy organizing, I don’t have all that much time to organize, so  chaos is the natural state of kid…

Everybody loves this little drum that Auntie Amy Texas brought back from India long before we had kids.  In fact, I think it arrived in our family before we were married, actually.  She gifted it to Dr. Peds, but long ago I started using it with my students.  There is…

Mr. Trouble on Feet has discovered the joy of whacking sticks on trees, and any other object that he isn’t forbidden to strike, actually.  The pounding is  accompanied  with loud “HiYaaaa”s and some crazy little boy aggression.    He has also begun to enjoy light saber fighting with Mr. Sneaky…

It was a few weeks ago now, when I told the kidlets they could hike to a tiny stream and wade around if they wanted.  When it was time to head back home, Mr. Sneaky Pants  decided he didn’t want to carry his wet, cold clothes in his hands or…

It somehow did not work this year for us to get up the North Shore to see the color, or visit any of my favorite places on the south shore either due to various circumstances, but I tried to get out of the house whenever I could to catch little…

The past two days there have been a few snow flurries whirling around.  Mr. TOF was excited to look out the window.  “It’s doughing!  It’s doughing!  Dough!”  

This girl’s hair has grown longer still, the longest it has ever been.  While I was out of the house she and Dr. Peds surprised me by baking all 150 cookies that I needed to take to church for a dinner that our small group is helping serve at.  She’s…

There was no school on Friday because of MEA.  Mostly we stayed around the house, getting a few things done in the yard, making messes in the house, relaxing and playing.  In the middle of the afternoon our neighbors up the hill stopped and asked if anyone wanted to go…

Mr. Sneaky Pants got into the roll of tin foil and the cardboard stash, and was so pleased with the results that he actually asked me to take a picture.