If you want to get rid of three packages of cheese, a bag of grapes, three packages of crackers, two batches of chocolate chip cookies, an almond cake, and two pans of brownies, just invite 2/3 of your piano students over for a party.  We ran out of refreshments last…

    It’s been a crazy week, and actually, blogging may be a bit sporadic for the next few days as well, because THIS arrived today! (It’s a 1919 medium grand rebuilt Steinway).  How it got there is a long story worthy of it’s own post, as is the kidlets’…

In this day of technological wonder, I am glad that our library still has this wonderful telephone booth out for kids to play with.  It has been such a hit with all of my kidlets, and Mr. Trouble on Two Feet is no exception.  He recently discovered it, standing there,…

We had barely any snow all year, but this week we got two feet!  The first big snowfall came with the blizzard last Wednesday, when show fell fast and furious and whipped around like the best of any blizzard.  We were very excited about that, but on Friday we started…

We had a blizzard yesterday, a fast and furious storm that whipped many inches of snow all about and kept everyone inside and cozy.  Because not all the streets were plowed, the kidlets got an extra snow day today, a nice reward for a great deal of shoveling they did…

There was no school last week, and the kapla blocks got a good workout from YaYa.  It was fun to see her really get creative and built some amazing things.  There were several very impressive structures that the cat unfortunately knocked over before I managed to capture them, including a…

  YaYa was in charge of the leftover smorgasbord for lunch. YaYa:  Hannah, what do you want for lunch? The Banana:  A BIG plate of butter.

Dr. Peds and I had a great time watching the Prairie Home Companion live broadcast from Duluth last Saturday.  Click here to listen if you missed it.  We’ve been big fans of the show for years and years, and just get a tremendous kick out of listening to it on the…

  Someone really, really loves his peanut butter.  He’d have peanut butter at every meal if he could. Side note:  In a few hours I will be at The Prairie Home Companion, which is broadcasting from here tonight!  Listen if you are able!

On the first morning of her extended stay, Grandma Kathy and I decided it was high time to get the kidlet crew out of the house and outside, so we decided to take a walk in the woods.  YaYa elected to stay home alone because she really dislikes walks in…