Back and forth. Forth and Back.

Here are three things making The Banana very happy these days: In person school has started! She was so excited that she got to go to school this week for two mornings. Soon she will be able to go for more days each week. This girl thrives off of interaction…

Thursday night I was sitting on the couch reading. The Banana was finishing some school next to me. Dr. Peds was sitting across the room searching for things on his phone. Suddenly the Devious Snail came down the stairs and sheepishly entered the piano room. “Uhm, so I was playing…

Thanks to The Banana’s History Day project, I now know more about Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless telegraph and the Wireless Ship Act of 1910 than I ever thought possible. History Day is so educational, and so, so much work. The Banana has been working for weeks and week and weeks nonstop…

A student gifted me with an amaryllis bulb at Christmas, and I planted it in a pot on the first of January. I always enjoy watching flowers grow in the midwinter. It is fascinating to watch the stem grow out of the bulb, and then observe how the plant develops.…

The weather has been beautiful this week! Despite the fact that no one goes anywhere here, it seems difficult to get outside because there is so, so much work to be done inside. The bigger kidlets have been glued to their screens feverishly working on school the past few weeks.…

We are coming out of a loooooonnnnng cold snap, and it’s that time of year when I just really appreciate all of my house plants because they are green and alive. This lovely plant usually sits on our dining room table. Last spring we began a family writing project when…

She’s frantically working on her History Day project. He’s reading the Sunday Comics dated December 27 from the Minneapolis Star Tribune which appeared in the mudroom, but I’m not sure from where it came.

His sister dressed up to go on a little Father-Daughter date last Friday, so he dressed up to beat me at chess. “I like playing with you, Mom,” he tells me. “It’s really impossible to predict what you might do next.” Mmmmmmhhhhmm. My favorite strategy is to make a really…