The amount of energy and anticipation after school was palpable.  In between people arriving home on the bus we managed to throw in a violin practice and a violin lesson and carve three more pumpkins, cook and eat supper.  Kidlets were bee-bopping around here like bugs, anticipating that once-a-year sugar…

I’ve been hearing the word “melisma” at choir rehearsals for years now, and I always pretended to know what it was.  The other day The Banana’s violin teacher mentioned “melisma,” and I finally said to myself:  This is ridiculous!  I had better figure this out once and for all.  So I simply looked…

It’s a fun filled week this week, particularly for Mr. Trouble on Feet, who is all about costumes right now.  He’s so excited about all the places he gets to wear costumes this week that he has hatched a complicated plan of a new costume for each event.  He was…

Nobody likes unpacking  lunch boxes at our house.  Even though it’s supposed to be the first thing kidlets do upon walking over the threshold after getting off the bus, if I’m lucky, the task is completed by supper time.  Lots of times it isn’t done until bedtime.  Sometimes it gets…

My favorite season is still rolling along.  Every year I am surprised at how long the autumn season actually lasts here.  In my childhood autumn colors literally lasted four or five days, but in the forest trees change in their own sweet time, some early and some late, which means…

We got a new outdoor table!  I am so excited because it is BIG, and now we aren’t so squished when we eat outside.  We eat outside every opportunity we have throughout the year.  We could still squish around our round table, but anytime we had even just one extra…

This is what happens when the aviation loving  oboist-in-residence spots a plane flying above the meadow.  Not only can she identify birds with ease, she also knows her airplanes, this girl.

Me:  You are getting so big! Mr. TOF:  I know! Me:  Stop all this growing!  That’s it!  No more vegetables for you! Mr. TOF:  But I can’t stop.  God made me to grow.  He does it when I’m sleeping. Me:  But if you get too big, who is going to…

Here are some of my favorite paintings that Mr. Trouble on Feet has brought home from preschool.  He completely and utterly adores preschool, and he has been loving having the opportunity to paint there.  These papers make my heart happy.