When Grandma Kathy comes to visit, she doesn’t need to bring an alarm clock.  There’s always a multitude of grandchildren (with cold feet!) that wait for the sun to rise so they can crawl in bed with her.  Mr. Sneaky Pants is especially surreptitious about climbing in under the warm…

My new nephew was born a bit more than two weeks ago now.  While it’s not my story to tell, I can say that he was born under surprising circumstances, and came out at a whopping eleven pounds! You can only imagine my excitement when I found out that Auntie…

Our CSA fruit share ended last week, and I’ve enjoyed our small box of fruit each week all summer long so much that I’m definitely planning on ordering a share again next summer.  It was so much fun to pick up our “mystery” box each week, and the fruit was delicious.…

Mr. Trouble on Feet is into passwords.  He loves blocking a doorway or hallway, or even the sidewalk, as you can see in this image. “Password!”  he grins up at me.  After I guess eight passwords that are never right, he tells me the latest password.  I shout it out…

Everyone needed to go outside and move around a bit.  No one wanted to go on a bit long, fast walk with me, so Dr. Peds decided that everyone should go on a family walk.  Family walks are shorter, slower, and always filled to the brim with drama!  We headed…

Leah–the Leah in the Bible, as in the sister of Rachel–could not see well.  Somehow I missed this, and I’ve paid attention to that story in the Bible for nearly my whole life, since Leah’s sister is Rachel, and a person takes note when a Bible character shares her name.…

I hereby declare that having Halloween fall on a Thursday is the trickiest thing ever.  Thursday falls after three jam packed busy weekdays and is on a teaching day for me.  It felt too early to prepare things last weekend, but of course once the week started, there was no…

The kid bookshelves around here are chaos all the time!  I organize them, and three days later:  chaos.  I organize again:  chaos.  Although organizing books is about the only thing I enjoy organizing, I don’t have all that much time to organize, so  chaos is the natural state of kid…

Everybody loves this little drum that Auntie Amy Texas brought back from India long before we had kids.  In fact, I think it arrived in our family before we were married, actually.  She gifted it to Dr. Peds, but long ago I started using it with my students.  There is…

Mr. Trouble on Feet has discovered the joy of whacking sticks on trees, and any other object that he isn’t forbidden to strike, actually.  The pounding is  accompanied  with loud “HiYaaaa”s and some crazy little boy aggression.    He has also begun to enjoy light saber fighting with Mr. Sneaky…