Just this last weekend I tried sliced grilled beets at a friend’s house.  Trying a new food is a rare thing for me.  I have a lot of food aversions, and I am often very anxious about trying something new.  When I do try something new, I almost always don’t…

Last Friday YaYa had a dance recital, and our neighbors half way down the street came along for the performance.  I had to drop her off about an hour and a half before the performance, so we headed to our absolute favorite pizza place, Vitta Pizza.  It did not take…

In the ten years we’ve lived here, we’ve only stopped to play at this boat one time before this week, and that time was long, long before this little guy was born.  Every time we drive by it, I think, Oh, we should stop there and play some time, but…

It was a very rainy week here, solid wetness for days on end.  I’m not complaining.  It really can’t rain too much for me.  Even when we had our big flood a few years ago, I still loved the rain.  I really enjoy precipitation in all forms, actually.  We headed…

She said to me, “Sometimes, when not a lot is going, on I just like to look up at the ceiling and find pictures in the wood.”  Our family room has a wood plank ceiling, and there are dark brown knots in the pine. Actually, I often do the same…

The Banana has had such a great time singing in the Lake Superior Youth Chorus program this year.  I knew she’d love it.  The three choirs sang in their spring concert last Saturday, and it was really fun to watch and listen to them.  So many passionate little singers!  They…

The Banana has a flair for acting, and lately two alter-ego personalities have been appearing often in our car and around the house:  Debra, a very enthusiastic but not so smart gal, and my favorite, Constantine. Constantine speaks in a drawn out nasal Eastern European accent, and he’s always up…

It was Mother’s Day, so I took it upon myself to be the person who picked which beach we would go to on Sunday Night.  I picked the Secret Beach, which made some people grouchy and some people happy.  YaYa stayed behind at home because she wasn’t feeling very well.…

I was the family taxi driver, and Mr. TOF was along for the ride because there wasn’t a big person at home to supervise him.  I had extracted him from the yard of his favorite neighbors, the blue house neighbors, who let him play with their two large dogs, and…

Waves!  Both the last two times I’ve been to the beach were excellent wave days! I love the sound of the waves rushing in.  It is so calming to me.  Any kind of water sounds are calming to me.  A rushing creek or even a burbling stream also lower my…