The Tuesday before Thanksgiving Mr. Trouble on Feet and I cleared out our afternoon to zip down to our elementary school.  The Banana’s class was presenting a play about the first Thanksgiving, and reading Thanksgiving poems.  The Banana was a Pilgrim.  Each student also had a turn to read a…

For the past couple of months, each Thursday morning I have been dropping of Mr. TOF at preschool, and then going to teach a preschool music class at an assisted living residency near the rocky beach.  There is always a little gap of time between preschool drop off and the…

Mr. Sneaky Pants requested Swedish Pancakes for breakfast in the bathtub.  His siblings were not complaining about the menu, because who doesn’t love a stack of Swedish Pancakes?  No syrup needed.  They are delicious as is. That said, I’ve never known any of my kidlets to pass up syrup when…

Usually The Banana practices piano before school in the dark of the morning, and the violin after school in the dark of the evening, but last week our schedule went a little topsy turvy and she ended up practicing the piano after school in the light of the afternoon.  

We have scores of these lovely creations that have come home from preschool.  Literally, I could count out groups of 20 of these lovely little papers. About two weeks ago, Mr. TOF started pulling groups of these papers out of his backpack. Me:  Oh!  What did you make? Mr. TOF:…

  A few years ago we made a small gratitude tree as a centerpiece on the dining room table just before Thanksgiving.  You can read about it here.  It was such a resounding success, I knew I wanted to do it again.  Last year we were gone at Thanksgiving, and…

It snowed on Monday, a slippery snow that caused a few traffic catastrophes around town, even though we are experienced winter people, here.  Truly, the way the snow compacted on the streets really DID make things seem more slippery than usual, especially all those steep hills, so the massive car…

My love of National Public Radio started way back in high school.  When I started driving myself to piano lessons, about 40 miles away from the farm I lived on, I started tuning into NPR in hopes of hearing classical music.  If my lessons were on Saturday morning, I heard…

He started building this tower on his own while I was working on a project, and when Dr. Peds came home, he helped make it even taller.  Mr. Trouble on Feet was excited to make the tower taller than himself.  It wasn’t the most stable construction, though, so after a…

Last weekend Mr. Trouble on Feet brought home the class sock monkey from preschool.  Each weekend the sock monkey is a guest in the home of a different preschool student.  Then each family writes about what they did with sock monkey in a notebook to share with the class.  …