Mr. Trouble on Feet is always finding something interesting to do. Over the past few weeks he’s taken to building wonderful block structures.  Kids playing with wooden blocks makes my heart sing!  I love coming into the family room on a break from teaching to see what he’s added to his…

A few weeks ago I was driving the car with all of the kids to pick up an additional kid at a friend’s house and deliver all the kids to church for youth group and AWANA.  (While the kids are at church the grown ups have Bible study).  It’s always…

The Banana had plans to go trick or treating as a donut.  We initially planned on making her costume out of cardboard, but then realized that we didn’t have any large pieces of cardboard in our cardboard stash.  We weren’t sure what to do, when our neighbor brought over a…

We’ve been super fortunate to get to attend six preschool Boo Balls throughout the last few years.  It’s always a highly anticipated event in our house.  YaYa and I did not wear costumes because YaYa was on her way to a piano lesson after the ball, and I had come…

Mr. Trouble on Feet was excited to wear a costume for the parade at his preschool.  He elected to be a dragon that morning.  He’s a cute, fuzzy, squishable dragon.   The preschool parade is always completely adorable. We also got to bring a special pumpkin to school the day of…

I have a student who always looks at the date of birth and death for the composer of a new piece, does a quick calculation in his head to find out how long the composer lived and immediately asks me how he died.  His questions inspired me to learn more…

So, it’s been bonecrushingly busy these past few weeks, but the fact that October is the most beautiful month of the year has not been lost on me!  Even though I wasn’t able to be outside nearly as much as I wanted to be, I did zip out the door…

Dr. Peds makes my favorite pizza in the history of pizza.  He rolls out  thin crust and lightly covers it with a super thin layer of olive oil.  He strategically places dabs of fresh mozzarella cheese (from the gourmet cheese section of the grocery store, not the usual bags of…

Over the weekend we zipped down to Glensheen Mansion to see all the pumpkins.  So many pumpkins!  My favorite part was probably the pumpkins playing tennis on the tennis court, a match that was being viewed by a pumpkin audience.  It was super cute. Of course, so many of the pumpkins…

She does all her homework, all the things on her list, all her practicing as efficiently as possible.  Then her shoes are on, and she’s out the door, off to play with friends and neighbors for as long as possible.  My extrovert with introvert parents and elder siblings:  she never…