It turns out that Cardboard Sarah is actually taller than the real YaYa. For this visit, Cardboard Sarah waited patiently in the backseat of the van for a surprising ride to church.

Her sister called from across the state after watching her short, socially distanced choir concert that was live-streamed.

This bush just gets better and better every year! It is in it’s prime this week, and takes my breath away every time I look in its direction. All of the sudden the weather has warmed, the trees are budding, and the bugs are out! The arrival of the bugs…

Baby leaves are growing on all sorts of plants: bushes, trees, and ground plants in the forest. I love watching the plant changes that take place in spring. Budding leaves are particularly fascinating, I think. The weather has turned comfortable this week, and yesterday in between teaching students I moved…

I’m a little late to document what I’ve been learning this month because the past few days have been a bit crazy. Mr. Trouble on Feet and I really enjoyed learning about the Tower of London and the Taj Mahal. Both buildings have such interesting histories. We decided we would…

This Friday we walked to the beaver dam late in the day, knowing that the beavers would be most likely to come out right around sunset. We suspected they might make an appearance to repair a large hole in one of the beaver dams that came about from rushing spring…

Long before the days of the pandemic I had already discovered the glory of grocery delivery. It has truly been the singular most helpful thing to me these past couple of years, and I would choose the privilege of grocery delivery over house cleaning help any day, especially since the…

These days she is not a fan of sonatinas, minuets, musettes and gavottes, but she likes pretty much anything else. It is true that she has played a lot of minuets, musettes and gavottes on her violin, and when she sees one pop up at the piano she groans loudly.…

When the kidlets were little we had these adorable animal pots. You fluff up some dirt, add grass seed and water, and the grass grows into hair. Just before Easter I happened to see them in a store (truthfully it was the only store I had been at since before…

This boy dislikes the writing process. Most specifically, he detests revising, which I’m always encouraging. I get it. It’s hard for anyone, especially a kid, to want to make changes that you maybe don’t think are that necessary, and Mr. TOF doesn’t like change of any kind whatsoever in the…