It’s started!  Perhaps it’s my favorite annual tradition, visiting various Lake Superior beaches every Sunday night from the end of May until October.  Every week is different, and it’s always an adventure, time well spent.  Because we have a girl in a cast, visiting a sandy beach was out of…

Sometimes I feel like a bad parent when there are a lot of things for me to take care of and I tell my kids to find something to do, something to keep busy.  It’s easy to have all sorts of ideas in my head of things that I should be…

This just makes me smile.

Usually the Mess of the Week is precipitated by one of the kidlets.  This time it might have been me.  It probably was me.  The moonroof on the van somehow did not get closed, and during the night there were not one, not two, but three thunderstorms with major downpours.…

The Banana had a run in with a piece of furniture in a neighbor’s house yesterday afternoon.  The furniture won. Dr. Peds suspected that her toe might be broken, and it turns out that he surmised correctly.  This morning he took her in to have it checked, and an Xray…

We’ve had our toaster since we’ve gotten married.  It has four slots for extra thick bread, and I haven’t encountered a lot of toasters like that.  I like our toaster a great deal.  However, in its old age it is getting to be a bit unpredictable, and if you don’t watch…

  Last weekend I traveled with the Arrowhead Chorale to Winnipeg, Manitoba for a performance of Rachmaninoff’s Vespers with the Winnipeg Philharmonic Choir and The Winnipeg Singers (a professional chorale ensemble). It meant getting up before sunrise to get on a bus as the sun was rising so that we…

We were waiting for YaYa who was having a piano lesson, and decided to take a quick walk around the block.  There are two Little Free Libraries within a block of YaYa’s piano teacher’s house.  When we got to the second library, Mt. TOF pulled out a Disney book from…

Last weekend I hopped on a charter bus with the Arrowhead Chorale last weekend to travel to Winnipeg for a performance (a post is coming about that soon). Before I left my little guy with very mixed emotions said, “I’m really happy you are going to have fun singing, but…