It snowed on Monday, a slippery snow that caused a few traffic catastrophes around town, even though we are experienced winter people, here.  Truly, the way the snow compacted on the streets really DID make things seem more slippery than usual, especially all those steep hills, so the massive car…

My love of National Public Radio started way back in high school.  When I started driving myself to piano lessons, about 40 miles away from the farm I lived on, I started tuning into NPR in hopes of hearing classical music.  If my lessons were on Saturday morning, I heard…

He started building this tower on his own while I was working on a project, and when Dr. Peds came home, he helped make it even taller.  Mr. Trouble on Feet was excited to make the tower taller than himself.  It wasn’t the most stable construction, though, so after a…

Last weekend Mr. Trouble on Feet brought home the class sock monkey from preschool.  Each weekend the sock monkey is a guest in the home of a different preschool student.  Then each family writes about what they did with sock monkey in a notebook to share with the class.  …

  I’m pretty sure that I’ll never stop getting a charge over the fact that I live in Minnesota, hundreds and hundreds of miles from any ocean, and I still get to see surfers catching waves on a regular basis.  Of course, the wind has to be just right, but…

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…