It was kind of a slow month around here.  There was the day to day frenzy, but the month was slow as far as surprising circumstances or momentous occasions.  That’s OK.  My learning list is a bit short this month, and that’s OK too. Don’t fix what isn’t broken.  Stick…

I’m super duper behind on blogging, but I could not leave this event out of the blog.  The picture is a grainy because stupidly, I left my big camera at home, so it was taken with the camera on my iPod.  In the middle of the month, my friend Kimberly…

In the middle of last week, on a delightfully warm day before the last snowstorm, we went for a short hike and spent a few minutes playing at the playground.  Mr. Trouble on Feet loved this slide, which was a little more slippery than usual because of the snow on…

I love a good snowstorm.  It’s a good thing, considering that between several different snow events, we’ve gotten another 30 inches of snow in the last week.  On Thursday it snowed hard all through the night, and a glorious 16 inches dumped down from the sky.  It was beautiful.  At…

I am so grateful that my husband enjoys playing games with them, because truthfully, I do not.  The drama involved is not my thing, and I end up frustrated, so I don’t do it.  I can read out loud to the crew of kidlets for hours and hours on end,…

  This week my kidlets have a break from school all week.  I actually love that we get an entire week break in February and another week-long break in April.  Breaks like that help everyone come back to the classroom refreshed and ready to learn.  I would have loved that…

Yesterday we were out walking in the woods.  The Banana noticed that she, YaYa and I all were wearing silly hats.  “Let’s take a silly hat picture!” she exclaimed.  Of course, YaYa wanted no part in that, but I said sure, and handed my camera with all of the settings…

  The first two years we lived in Northern Minnesota, we didn’t know that the sea caves in the Apostle Islands were sometimes accessible by ice in the middle of the winter.  We found out about this the five years ago when the ice broke up and the caves were…

These wonderful pipe cleaner Valentine glasses came home from school with Mr. Sneaky Pants yesterday, and they went crazy modeling them.  Of course, Mr. SP and The Banana came home with a bag of valentines and candy too.  After little sugary snack, we sent them outside to burn off some…

I am super behind on blogging.  A few days ago The Banana came home from a “spa” birthday party with this amazing hairdo.  It was a circular french braid coming from the bottom and top, from some kind of bun on the top of her head.  It was gorgeous.  The…