She’s persuasive, that girl of mine.  When she has an idea, she usually has a plan as to how to make the idea happen.  For example, tonight she’d already eaten supper.  When I got done teaching I reheated the leftover supper my kidlets hadn’t consumed.  There was not a lot…

  Today is a beautiful day:  fifty degrees, cloudy, foggy, and damp.  I like it much better than this ridiculous summer weather we have been having in March!  Sixty eight degrees and humid does not belong in March, although it makes some people very happy. There are reasons why I…

    Last fall we purchased two tickets for Coppelia, the spring production of the Minnesota Ballet. at the silent auction that is an annual fundraiser for the biggest kidlets’ school.  Although my husband is NOT a ballet appreciator, which is such a shame since we really do have a…

She spent the better part of an hour late Saturday afternoon sliding down the last icy patch in the yard (rapidly disappearing with the sixty degree temperatures) singing in a boisterous, pirate voice that she was Pirate Girl, Queen of the Sea.  It was such a contrast to her little…

You know you are really in the mix of the family when someone hands you your very own perfectly sized shovel.  It’s his current favorite outside item, and he spends just as much time shoveling water as he does snow during these disturbingly warm days.

  If these dads look tired to you, it’s probably because they’d been up all night for several consecutive nights building and finishing AWANA race cars for their kids.  The annual AWANA race is quite the anticipated event around our church, and the dads really go all out.  At least…

  The bird mouth is effective.  He has it down pat.

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,…