I have the most magnificent, flexible mother-in-law who is filled to the brim with a low-key sense of humor.  One evening during her extended stay (which she was so very calm and relaxed about in the first place)  Dr. Peds brought home a piece of chicken to eat from the…

On Saturday evening we took a little trip just a bit up the shore to Stony Point.  It’s such a fun beach, always less crowded and full of super neat rocks and crevices.  Of course, at this time of the year we were pretty much the only people around, which…

I’ve been away from my computer that I do my photography editing on for the past few days because the ever amazing and flexible Grandma Kathy has been visiting!  She came to spend the weekend with us, and has stayed a few extra wonderful days because of some weather related…

The big kids were sliding down the ice track in the side yard, and he needed to put on his hat and watch out the window.

This week I was invited to The Banana’s Preschool to be a “guest musician” for their unit about music.  I brought all sorts of instruments with me:  my clarinet, flute, french horn, trumpet, my violin that I can’t play that has a broken string, and even my brother’s old, moldy…

I live in a cluttery mess.  All the time. Sometimes it drives me crazy.  Mostly, I am OK with it, because  it could be so much worse than it is!  The practicality of it, is that a person just cannot keep everything.  There isn’t room to store every glossy catalog…

That’s my guy:  dressed in his brother’s fleece dinosaur hat and smitten with his sister’s sunglasses, with blueberries from breakfast smeared all over his face and shirt.  He loves a good costume, this kid.  He wore this for a good half hour.  I tried so hard to get a really…

Sometimes, on a busy morning before school, YaYa eats a bowl of dry grape nuts.  No milk.  She turns her nose up at milk on cereal because milk makes things soggy, which I completely agree with and totally understand.  However, I’m a bit surprised that she likes grape nuts.  Grape…

She sings and dances everywhere, but this tutu, borrowed for a week from a friend from preschool, has been especially inspiring.  It’s not like we don’t have a lot of tutus around here, but this tutu is not only fluffy, it’s also lacy.  And a delicate pink.

First of all, let me start by telling you how the weather was amazing last weekend, so amazing that snow, and we didn’t have a lot to begin with, was melting like crazy.  It was so beautiful that it was simply a shame to be inside, and to have something…