Today was the third day in a row of ninety degree weather, and already our second big heat wave for the summer season. Usually things are just thinking about warming up at this point. Hot weather is NOT my friend. Yesterday I sweated so much my face actually hurt! Today…

She says the view is great, but I am thinking I probably don’t bend this way anymore.

I have forgotten what kind of flower this is, but it has been bringing me unique joy from its sunny place on the deck next to the lavender and rosemary and other flowers and plants that love the sun. It is purple. It is majestic. It is full of not-dangerous…

My husband’s brother gifted us with a deep tissue massage gun, and it is amazing! Even Mr. TOF loves to use it on his baseball muscles. It remarkably loosens up muscles. I love it on my shoulders, on my feet, even in my fleshy thumb muscle. I really enjoyed watching…

Sometimes the things I end up saying make me shake my head. Who would ever have thought I’d be hollering “You are NOT going to be until I have read you a poem!” or “Get down here RIGHT NOW or I’m going to let your brother eat your food!”

The Banana and I waited as long as we could for Mr. TOF to finish with baseball tryouts (for a special team), but when the sun started sinking, we left him some food to eat when he got home, and we headed to the beach without him. The Banana decided…

On Monday these fun and fabulous local National History Day qualifiers (Can you believe that there are FIVE of them!!!!) got to meet the mayor, who was a National History Day qualifier herself when she was a student. They had a great conversation outside city hall. It was fun to…

It’s summer! It has been a strange beginning to summer this year because we had really warm weather really early, and it actually felt weird to still have kidlets bogged down with school when the temperatures were HOT (so hot it felt miserable). But, this week is the first week…