It is crab apple season. They are ripe, ready to go, and falling frost the tree all the time. It is a bumper crop this year. I haven’t ever seen the tree so full of blossoms as this past spring, and now it is so laden with red fruit that…

Stroller rides: Peanut Maximus loves his stroller. Sometimes he’s awake and calm and looking around while rolling down the sidewalk( it is quite rare for him to be awake and calm in general), and other times he falls fast asleep from all the jostling. Either way, a stroller ride seems…

It was the first trip to the beach for Peanut Maximus! At the end of the night Dr. Peds said to me, “He likes teh beach! You will have a beach buddy for many more years.” Hooray! The beach is exponentially more fun with a little person. It was a…

Peanut Maximus loves cuddles, all day, all the time. He also likes sink baths after he gets over the initial shock of the first rinse down. This is nice, because a lot of the other babies in the family were definitely not a fan of bath time. One of the…

Kidlet 5 has arrived!! For at least a little bit he will be known as Peanut Maximus on the blog. He was born on a Tuesday morning at 8:27 a.m. by C-section, and it was a smooth affair. He is a healthy guy, weighing in at 9 pounds 3 ounces…

I ended up driving to the beach by myself! It was a windy, almost chilly evening with lots of clouds, and by the time I managed to actually get there it was already getting a little dark and gloomy. I sat on a rock, contemplated the itinerary of my upcoming…

The Banana and The Devious Snail were off to camp. YaYa and I waited for Mr. TOF to finish baseball practice, and then we thought it would be a great idea to get fried chicken from the grocery store and take it to the beach. Unfortunately when we arrived at…

I’ve been frightfully neglectful regarding my yard this summer, and even the container garden on the back deck has been suffering all season. However, the lavender plants that winter indoors and then move back outside at the end of May are in full bloom right now, and they smell so…

Recently Dr. Peds was sitting on the futon in the family room, and I was sitting on the giant bean bag, the library tote bag next to me filled with children’s picture books that I had requested on hold. Dr. Peds looked up from his phone. “What are you doing?”…

This may have been the most ridiculous Sunday Night at the Beach this summer! The Banana drove the van with Dr. Peds in the driver’s seat, and YaYa and I in the middle seats. (It is so strange to sit in the middle of the van!) We decided to go…