Last week the big kidlets were home all week from school for spring break.  Since most of my piano students were not traveling, I maintained a mostly normal teaching schedule, and several of those students come to their lessons during “nap,’  when Mr. TOF is napping and the big…

In an effort to make spring break interesting and exciting, on Tuesday morning I suggested that we go to the Maritime museum and then the grocery store.  The free Maritime Museum down by the ship canal is a great little museum, and even though I’ve been there many times now,…

He’s her biggest fan, and his adoration for her oboe runs deep.  He waits all day for YaYa to practice oboe in the evening.  He’s always been enamored of the wonderful sounds from that black and silver pipe, but she really sent him over the moon when she learned to…

The blizzard with the very strong east wind was supposed to start in the middle of the night, but when I woke up this morning, the snow had not started.  I was very excited, because I had checked the night before to see what the projected wave height on the…

These two: they are something else for so many reasons.  They squabble.  They pest.  They drive each other (and me) completely crazy.  And when they decide to get along, they are just downright dangerous.  They also occasionally manage to have a really good time with one another.

Mr. Trouble on Feet loves going to the children’s museum.  We haven’t gone often over the past few months, and that clearly has been a mistake, because it is quite possibly his favorite place in the city.  He loves digging in the dinosaur bone pit.  He loves dressing up.  He…

In preparation for the AWANA grand prix, Dr. Peds spent a lot of time in the basement with his tool collection.  In true Mason fashion, this year each kidlet chose something that wasn’t actually a car for their racing vehicle.  The Banana drew up plans for a ballet shoe.  Mr.…

Earlier in the year there was a crazy hair day at school, but no one in this family wished to participate.  However, when we remembered it was crazy hair night at AWANA, ten minutes before departure time, they were ALL over it.  YaYa had crazy hair of her own making…

Strangely enough the tire swing at our closet park is not actually made of a real tire.  Instead it’s molded hard plastic.  While so unauthentic in construction, it definitely does not ever seem to stop them from having some authentic fun.

On Saturday evening the weather was beautiful, and we called up our neighbors at the top of the hill to see if they wanted to go for a little neighborhood walk.  They did, and so the fast walkers set off in the direction of our neighborhood park, and the slow…