Here are a few things I’ve been loving lately:

OK, so I may have grieved the fact that it was the first day of school and only two kids were home and going to school. It was a little rough. The Banana knew that it was going to be rough for me, and she even gave me a gift…

Labor Day weekend was the hottest I can ever remember, and definitely the hottest string of five days we’ve had all summer. It was so weird for it to be so very hot so late in the season. It was also dry and crunchy, and just a struggle in general.…

Peanut Maximus, Mr. TOF and I headed down to a beach off the Lakewalk as the sun was getting low. I kept Peanut Maximus in the backpack the whole time we were at the beach because I was tired and just didn’t feel like chasing him around, so there aren’t…

Our plum tree on the boulevard was full of fruit that perfectly ripened last weekend. There has been a lot of plum munching, and Peanut Maximus really enjoys plum sauce in his morning cereal. We were so surprised a few years ago when our “fruitless” plum tree was not fruitless,…

The cousins and Grandma Kathy came to Sunday Night at the Beach! We headed up the shore to Stoney Point, and it was such a perfect, beautiful night! The Banana had just arrived home from her final rowing regatta for the season, and she needed to help unload boats down…

Grandma Kathy delivered two cousins for a modified Camp Aunt Rachel last weekend. The past few weeks of summer have been a bit of a doozy and many plans were thrown out the window, so I was super happy that we managed to get these cousins here! There was baseball…

The Banana had been to the beach with friends from the swim team earlier in the day, and when we were deciding what beach to visit that evening, she mentioned that the waves were beautiful, so we decided to go for it. I had been avoiding the sandy beach for…

The cat managed to get sprayed not once but twice within the span of five days. Both times he was hanging out on the back deck and encountered the neighborhood skunk. The first time he smelled, but I don’t think it was a direct hit. The second time was really…