Last Thursday and Friday there was no school.  On Thursday, Mr. Trouble on Feet actually did have preschool, but the other kids were home, and Dr. Peds was mostly home except for a few meetings at work.  I had canceled preschool music classes that day because it’s tricky when there…

Autumn is one of my favorite learning season with my music students.  I love getting to see my students who do not take lessons in the summer return to lessons.  Even my students who come in the summer are transformed by the shift in routine as school starts again.  While…

The resident teenager would not get out of bed and Dr. Peds was working,  but the rest of us headed out to partake of the glorious autumn splendor.   Mr. Trouble on Feet made a map and brought it along in his backpack in case we didn’t know which way…

I’m super behind on blogging what we’ve been up to.  A week ago on Sunday the weather was so warm it was practically hot.  Actually, it was hot!  After lunch I considered doing the work I needed to do, but then I looked out at my hammock hanging under the…

Last Saturday we invited a few families from our neighborhood  and a few nearby friends to come to our house for Neighborhood Music Night.  It’s a night of music sharing that we began about a year and a half ago, and it’s a lot of fun.  The selections range from…

On Tuesday morning I usually drop of Mr. TOF at preschool and go for a longer walk.  Tuesday morning is my walking morning because Wednesday morning I go to the university for my cello lesson (and try to look smart while rolling a cello case behind me across the campus…

This is what you get when you nicely ask all of your kidlets to take one quick picture with their beautiful grandmother, and no one cooperates except for maybe your husband.  Oh well.  I still love these images. 

On our way home from Applefest we stopped at my one of my very favorite sand beaches, Meyers Beach, to watch the sun go down.  Glorious. 

Apples on a stick!  Applefest was actually over a week ago, but all of last week was incredibly insane, and I didn’t post anything here for days.  It’s time to catch up a bit.  We were super blessed that Grandma Kathy came to stay at our house, and she was…