How can you not love a girl that snuggles up next to you in the morning, and when you tell her you’d just like to snuggle with her all day, she looks at you sympathetically and says, “Mama, as soon as I get home from school we can snuggle all…

A sledding hill does not necessarily need to be long to be entertaining.  The kidlets have built a track that goes down the steep  front yard onto the sidewalk that sort of resembles a skateboard park.  They woosh down the super steep slope and down across the sidewalk, up the…

While I was in the kitchen cooking supper, Dr. Peds was going through an enormous pile of his mail while sitting next to the fireplace, and Mr. SP was a few feet away working on homework. Mr. SP:  I HATE this homework! Dr. Peds:  Well, what kind of homework would…

Squirmy has started to give snuggle hugs.  I love it. He’s a smiley guy, always looking around, hoping for some interesting commotion to happen.  He can sit up a bit with the help of a pillow. He can wiggle on the floor a bit.  He loves to put things in…

There was no school today, which means that after I got up and fed the baby, we crawled back in my bed for some snuggles, and before long he was dozing peacefully next to me and I was in the middle of a really good book.  That’s when the other…

Today The Banana exited her preschool classroom, thrilled to show me that it was her turn to bring home the show and share bag, a denim bag that makes its way home to our house tonight, so that The Banana can fill it with “a few items” that she can…

Ahhhh.  Yes.  Slave labor.  I love slave labor.  Even though I often have to fight major battles to enforce the completion of slave labor tasks, I still love slave labor.  I like being able to delegate more and more responsibility to my kidlets!  Wonderful!  Work is good for the soul!…

At 3:10 p.m. I searched the house to find each kidlet and document what they were doing today.  YaYa was intently building a fairy garden.  Squirmy was still napping.  Mr. SP was in the middle of his very, very messy room, making an even bigger mess. I’m sure the mess…

Here are some scenes from homework time last Monday.  Mr. SP only has homework on Mondays.  It involves using the children’s dictionary, which he actually really enjoys.  At first he was not a fan of the dictionary, but it has really grown on him.  Liking the dictionary is a good…

The Banana was very happy to help Squirmy with his late afternoon workout.  These pictures really crack me up.  She copied everything he did.  He LOVED having company on the floor.  He loves anything his big sisters do with him in general, and they are almost always more than happy…