Fillet mignon was one of the luxurious foods served on the first passenger commercial transatlantic flight.  Man, I love Fillet mignon.  I blame my parents:  they always served it wrapped up in bacon around the edges for Christmas Eve supper through my adolescent years.  Obviously, a person doesn’t have fillet…

I mentioned in a previous post how cold days are challenging for me because people get cooped up.  Cooped up leads to even more bickering and squabbling than usual.  Add this to the fact that cold days always seem to happen on my teaching days AND on days where Dr.…

We’ve had a disproportionate number of inclement weather days this winter, which has resulted in a large number of days that school has been cancelled.  In fact, I don’t think my kidlets have had a full week of school in the last six weeks, and most of those weeks have been 3 day…

On Friday night the neighborhood dads took all of the neighborhood daughters to the annual Father Daughter Ball.  In preparation for this evening throughout the week there was deliberation concerning which dresses to wear.  There was the purchase of new shoes and tights.  It was decided that our neighbors half…

  Earlier in the week YaYa had gone sledding with her youth group at church  on a hill that we have never been to before. On Saturday afternoon she had the brilliant idea that our family should check out the hill.  Dr. Peds was working, but we didn’t have any…

As soon as I watched a video clip of people packing food for Kids Against Hunger in church a few weeks ago, I knew that it would be a great experience for our family, so I signed us up to help pack food at a sister church on the other side…

On Saturday I was with my three biggest kidlets, across town at a church to do some volunteer work.  I have more to write about that experience in the very near future, but I’m going to skip those details right now because I have a lot to say about it,…

My wise friend Siri gave me the idea of celebrating half birthdays long ago when we were talking about how YaYa and Mr. SP  both have birthdays that kind of get swallowed up in the festivities of major holidays (Christmas and Thanksgiving).  For years we’ve been marking half birthdays with…

Our neighbor halfway down the street texted Dr. Peds last Saturday and mentioned that he was taking his girls on a forced march through Hartley.  When I stopped laughing hysterically, I told Dr. Peds to text back that we’d join him.  Saturday afternoon was spent tromping and traipsing through the…

After weeks and weeks of mostly very cold weather, we made a point to be outside as much as possible when the thermometer hit 25 degrees this weekend.  I always like it when 25 feels positively balmy.  As soon as YaYa got home from school Friday afternoon we headed for…