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…

These two. They are really something.

We’ve known for a few weeks that The Banana’s History Day project qualified for national competition when she placed first at the state competition. It has been so exciting. Well, so exciting, and for a bit also so stressful, as there were many revisions to do in a short time…

It was the fourth day of a multiple day heat wave, and by the time it was time to leave for the beach, I had gotten cranky. Really, everyone was cranky by that point, but I was especially cranky. We do not tolerate heat well. I especially do not tolerate…

I am NOT loving the incredibly intense and unseasonable heat wave we have been suffering under for the last few days, but I AM loving the east wind that blew in across The Lake late this afternoon causing the temperature to literally plummet 40 degrees in 15 minutes from 97…

He can’t bear to miss even a second of a Minnesota Twins game on the radio. He even sneaks the little radio off to bed with him and turns the volume down super low so he’s less likely to be detected. Truly, he’s their most dedicated fan. I am certain…

Our first Sunday Night of the Beach for the season was blessed by gorgeous, bright full rainbow. Unfortunately the time was also cut short because the rainbow was followed by another rain shower, so we packed up and headed out. We did have time to throw some rocks in the…

I don’t usually think of these two as looking very much alike, but maybe they do! The news is that Mr. TOF has officially passed YaYa in the height department, and she is now officially the shortest person in the family. He may have whooped, hollered and celebrated.

One of the middles read an article about how middle children bring the stability to a family. Regardless of the fact that sometimes the middles fly under the radar and can get occasionally get overlooked, both of these middles wouldn’t trade being a middle for a being a bookend anytime…