• Free Hockey Puck

    On Friday night the kindergarteners in Mr. TOF’s class were presented with an opportunity for a family field trip to a UMD women’s hockey game.  Mr. TOF was dying to participate, of course, and Dr. Peds thought he would be done with work in time to take him.  There was…

  • Guarded

    I have amazing neighbors.  Last Thursday while I was busy with music students, my neighbor, who is one of Mr. TOF’s favorite people in the whole entire world, helped Mr. TOF along with random other neighborhood kids build an enormous snow dragon in the yard between our two houses.  It’s…

  • My Most Favorite Christmas Present EVER!

      I realize that it is now the middle of January, but I couldn’t resist sharing the most amazing and hilarious Christmas gift I’ve ever received in my whole entire life. My third kidlet, The Banana?  She’s a really funny kid.  She has a terrific sense of humor.  When she…

  • Happy Birthday YaYa!

    She’s been 15 for more than 2 weeks, but she still can’t blow out the candles on her cake.  Multiple years, now, she’s caught the giggles right before the big moment.  This year she extinguished . . . one candle.  One.  Her little sister helped with the rest.

  • His First Time on Skates

    Having strong recollections of how some of my other kidlets struggled with ice skating when they were Mr. TOF’s age, I mentioned to him several times when he was begging to go skating,”You know, skating is tricky.  It’s harder than it looks.  You can’t just put on skates and go.…

  • At the Outdoor Pleasure Rink

    He might not play hockey, but hockey hair?  He’s got that down. During holiday break from school my kidlets discovered the ice skating rink that has always been within walking distance.  Somehow we never paid attention to it before, but now the bigger kidlets can walk there themselves, and they’ve…