Because who doesn’t want to go to the beach wearing a big fuzzy dragon costume?  Tons of fun.  

After reading Ted Kooser’s poetry book “The Blizzard Voices,” which poetically chronicles some of the stories of the Schoolchildren’s Blizzard of 1888, I did more reading about this devastating and catastrophic weather event.  The stories are gripping. Buttermilk pancakes with fresh peaches and whipped cream:  I learned that this is…

  The truth of the matter is that I’m not the best pray-er.  It’s not a habit that comes naturally to me, and I’ve been working on changing that these days.  For a long time I’ve had the idea to spell out the word “Pray” above one of the windows…

I’ve been waiting to head up to the Stony Point beach all summer.  We don’t go there as often because it’s about a ten minute drive out of town, and it’s one of my favorites.  Then again, almost every beach is my favorite.  Each beach on Lake Superior is so…

The middle kidlets had earned an ice cream treat because they completed their learning quests (I’m going to write more about learning quests in a future post).  I decided that Saturday would be a great opportunity to go on a bike ride on the Lakewalk to get ice cream.  Bike…

Just moments after arriving at the cabin, before our family drove in, Uncle Bryan was sitting on the porch swing, suspended between two trees on a metal bar.  Suddenly the bar gave way and he crashed to the ground, and unfortunately the bar crashed onto his head and left an…

The Iowans brought a large supply of cardboard with them to the cabin.  Uncle Bryan came up with the fantastic idea of having a contest to build a cardboard boat that could actually float on the water.  After supper on Saturday night he divided up all the cousins and a…

Totally and completely irresistible, he continues to be the most good natured little person I’ve ever met.  (Except maybe right before he falls asleep, but I don’t count that.)   Crawling and standing is slimming him out, but there’s still plenty of squish!  

Each year at the cabin we are lucky to celebrate Auntie Dot’s birthday!  This means cake.  This year the cake was German Chocolate Cake with Coconut Pecan frosting served with ice cream.  Grandma Kathy brought the cake out and everyone gathered around to sing.   Some sang nicely; some sang…