Every year at the cabin we celebrate Auntie Dot’s birthday.  This year, after ice cream cake and festivities, Auntie Amy Texas unveiled a present giving extravaganza:  one carefully chosen present for each person at the cabin in honor of Grandma The Great.  Grandma The Great always gave everyone a small…

Mr. Trouble on Feet isn’t as excited to be in the water like the big kidlets.  It’s not that he never goes in and gets wet, he just approaches the water with a lot less enthusiasm and in a much calmer  way than his siblings.  He’s pretty content to be…

The paddleboards were out on the water a lot! Uncle Robert tried it out! Even Grandma Kathy ventured out one morning!  She started out standing up while I took pictures on her cell phone camera.  Then I she tried kneeling, while I got my own camera.  She was doing so…

From time to time at the cabin Auntie Dot would be busy with one thing or another.  I practiced watching and  and waiting for just the perfect time, and then I’d pop up, offering to take care of my winsome little niece.  Seeing no other alternative, Auntie Dot would agree,…

He brought along the Fargo Forum.

Cousin Alex caught this fish all by himself!  It was very exciting.  His dad helped him take out the hook and put the fish back in the water. Then Alex ate the bait.  Luckily it was canned corn, not worms.

ALL of Dr. Peds’ siblings were at the cabin to celebrate Auntie Dot’s birthday and enjoy our fun annual August weekend this year.  We were all excited that Auntie Amy Texas and her husband, Uncle Robert, could fly up from Texas to join us, and in honor of everyone being…

OK, so it wasn’t the entire neighborhood, but last week  several families with kids ranging from ages 3 to 11  on our street all went camping together at Tettagouche State Park.  Our neighbor up the hill reserved a group camping site so we could all tent together, and truly, it…

I love looking out over the unobstructed horizon.  Trees are lovely, but they obscure the clouds and hem a person in before you ever realize it. I’m grateful that I live in a place where I can enjoy both the forest and  ever changing clouds above Lake Superior.

Because people napped at weird times for various reasons, we needed an evening outing to expend a bit of energy, tire some small people out.  To the beach we went! He was hiding from me.   Walking in sand is tricky. All six kidlets were in and out of the…