This week, if I’m not teaching a music class, or teaching a piano lesson, or checking a kidlet’s homework, I’m off and about enjoying TREES!  They are so amazing!  Best of all, we have a grandma here to share them with.  We have great plans for this weekend, but we’re…

Our neighbors are wonderful people.  Wonderful.  Seriously, I couldn’t ask for better people in my neighborhood.  There is ONE neighbor, however, who lives about a block up our other street (our house sits on a corner) who is a tremendously bitter person.  And he hates our cat, who constantly escapes…

Every year I try to go up the North Shore in the early/mid autumn season to see the inland maples on the hills that sweep down to Lake Superior.  I’ve made it up there every year, although I fretted it would not happen this year.  We went apple picking the…

She’s always looking out for the best interests of Mr. Trouble on Feet.  He just doesn’t always realize it.  She keeps him away from dangerous places.  She makes sure he isn’t choking on things.  She goes behind him and picks up the things he strews about that he shouldn’t have…

What I like best about the beach is that there is always room for everyone to spread out and go their own directions.  This is especially helpful when everyone has been cooped up in the car for a bit.  On our way back from Bayfield last Saturday the kidlets asked…

It’s my favorite time of year!  The leaves are getting better every day.  On Wednesday while the big kidlets were at school in the morning, I decided to fling caution to the wind, and even though I had a long To Do list of things that really needed to be…

Recognizing that the backyard is already comfortably crowded and cluttered, the kidlets have been laying plans for the (comparably) pristine and spacious front yard for quite some time.  You might recall a long time ago how YaYa desperately wanted to install an asphalt bike path around the perimeter of the…

I love homemade applesauce.  My Grandma Edna used to spoil me with homemade applesauce all the time when I was a teenager and in college.  One time she even brought homemade applesauce to my voice recital, and the jar sat right up on the flower table on the stage while…

I am loving the way The Banana refers to Junie B. Jones in the chapter books we are reading out loud as “Junie B. Bones.” I am loving those quick moving toddler feet that tromp miles each day, even though they seem to lead my little bug into all sorts…

We couldn’t go to Bayfield and NOT stop to play at what has become one of our favorite parks ever.  We love the wooden climbing structures, the  pretend boat, the wonderful tire obstacle courses and climbing structures, the musical chimes, the terrific zipline.  The kidlets were very busy, including Mr.…