The weather was good on Sunday evening, so we headed to the beach after supper. The kidlets brought sidewalk chalk and a spade to dig through rocks. The spade wasn’t actually used very much, but they left the beach more artistic than they found it. I didn’t mind because I…

In a somewhat humiliating way, I unfortunately needed to relearn that commas should not be used to separate parts of a compound predicate. I had forgotten this mechanical rule, and I was leaning on the “comma-conjunction rule,” forgetting it was superseded by the other rule, and made a lot of…

He’s introverted, and so happy that he can just read books in his room by himself all day long. I have to drag him out to do anything other than eat. He’s not so very motivated to do homework of any sort. I’m pretty certain he could go on like…

Because we’ve settled into a relaxed schedule, I’m reading a lot of books and sleeping my fill. Ahhhh. That’s nice. Have you been watching Mo Willems’ Lunch Doodles? We have been fans of Mo Willems for years and years, and The Banana and Mr. TOF wait with great anticipation for…

She was a bit bored and decided to try to play her harp backwards.

For the last few days right around 5:30 p.m. I’ve become inexplicably grumpy. Ridiculously grouchy. Grouchy like a toddler without a nap, only I have been taking lots of naps. I cannot pinpoint a reason for my bad attitude at this time of the day, really. However, this week I’m…

Everything is canceled, and I’m still kind of coming to grips with that. On Sunday evening at 6:00, when everyone was home even though usually my people are scattered in all sorts of directions, I thought The BEACH! Why not? We have time. I screeched at everyone who wanted to…

Goodness gracious! What a week! It may have started out fairly normally, but Wednesday morning The Banana’s harp teacher announced that she was now disinfecting the harps after each student’s lesson because of the infamous Caronovirus, and by Wednesday afternoon YaYa’s college classes had moved to online learning for the…