It was probably two weeks ago now.  We were just beginning a relaxed Saturday afternoon hike.  They picked some dandelions along the road, and Mr. SP helped decorate The Banana’s braid.  Although these two squabble and argue sometimes, my middles do seem to get along the best out of any…

As soon as The Banana gets home from school on Wednesday afternoons, we head straight to the piano with her violin to sneak in a practice session before things get really crazy for the rest of the day.  We grab a quick snack and all of the supplies we need…

  Mr. SP has his trumpet lesson on Friday afternoons, and his trumpet teacher lives just a block away from our neighborhood park.  It’s the perfect opportunity to walk over to the playground while he noodles and toodles away on his trumpet We’ve been enjoying this little routine to end…

Each Friday morning for the past few weeks Mr. TOF and I have headed off to a nature-based preschool that invited us to come and teach a music class.  The class meets at the teacher’s home and incorporates some really fun concepts.  For example, there is a pet rabbit that…

Today was Mr. TOF’s last day of preschool for the year.  He has loved preschool, really loved it. Every single day he was excited to hop in the car and drive down the hill to school, and he’s grown in confidence so much in the last few months. Each day…

Mr. Sneaky Pants was in kindergarten or first grade when he discovered Garfield and Calvin and Hobbes and fell in love with comics.  He reads voraciously, thick novels swallowed all at once, but he loves a good comic strip to clear out his brain every once in awhile.  Grandma Kathy always…

This is the first weekend in many that I am able to spend at home with hardly anything on the schedule.  I cannot tell you how excited I am about this fact.   Our forsythia bushes that we planted last summer are in full bloom, and I love the branches…

Last weekend we packed everyone up and headed to Minneapolis for the state Minnesota History Day competition.  YaYa’s website qualified for the state level a few months ago. Dr. Peds was the driver extraordinaire who got us there and back safely, and then took the rest of the kidlets off…