YaYa has been playing her oboe for more than a year now, taking lessons each week from a terrific oboist.  Last week was her first actual band concert, however, since most of the sixth graders at their school just got their instruments in November.  I have been waiting and waiting…

Mr.  SP was frustrated with himself because he had forgotten his Friday folder.  In his classroom,  every Friday all the work that has been handed in  for the week comes home graded and we look at it together.  Looking at it together is not his favorite thing, but that particular…

That last face is very similar to the face I see often when I ask him to fix something on the homework that I’m checking over.  Pure disgust. As you can see, this child has no trouble expressing his feelings.  Even though he looks grumpy on the last picture, the…

Sometimes it’s easy to get tired of dealing with cold, snowy weather.  It helps to look a bit closer.  All morning long we had a gentle snow shower, big flakes drifting slowly down from the sky.  I knitted a red scarf, baked banana muffins and listened to a pint sized…

Fillet mignon was one of the luxurious foods served on the first passenger commercial transatlantic flight.  Man, I love Fillet mignon.  I blame my parents:  they always served it wrapped up in bacon around the edges for Christmas Eve supper through my adolescent years.  Obviously, a person doesn’t have fillet…

I mentioned in a previous post how cold days are challenging for me because people get cooped up.  Cooped up leads to even more bickering and squabbling than usual.  Add this to the fact that cold days always seem to happen on my teaching days AND on days where Dr.…

We’ve had a disproportionate number of inclement weather days this winter, which has resulted in a large number of days that school has been cancelled.  In fact, I don’t think my kidlets have had a full week of school in the last six weeks, and most of those weeks have been 3 day…

On Friday night the neighborhood dads took all of the neighborhood daughters to the annual Father Daughter Ball.  In preparation for this evening throughout the week there was deliberation concerning which dresses to wear.  There was the purchase of new shoes and tights.  It was decided that our neighbors half…

  Earlier in the week YaYa had gone sledding with her youth group at church  on a hill that we have never been to before. On Saturday afternoon she had the brilliant idea that our family should check out the hill.  Dr. Peds was working, but we didn’t have any…

As soon as I watched a video clip of people packing food for Kids Against Hunger in church a few weeks ago, I knew that it would be a great experience for our family, so I signed us up to help pack food at a sister church on the other side…