We dropped Mr. TOF off at choir rehearsal, and then Peanut Maximus and I headed to the beach to scramble around on rocks. During the last few trips to the beach, Peanut Maximus has been excited about going in the water, and he managed to get quite soggy on this…

I took a picture of the double impatients on the end of the deck because they were looking better than they had looked all summer and were bringing me great joy. The next morning they were completely destroyed! Something ate them down to the bare soil during the night. It…

Peanut Maximus had such a great time coloring a big cardboard box that came last week. One afternoon while Mr. TOF was watching him and I went for a walk, they worked together to make the box even more fun, drawing a train, a digger, and my favorite, a viola.…

When The Banana left for college she put a large cylindrical container of glitter on the counter in the basement next to the laundry. Unbeknownst to me, or anyone else in the house, a small Kidlet apparently sneaked into the basement, located the glitter, because what three year old does…

It was just the two of us, and my little buddy jumped and climbed on all the boulders while I sat and relaxed. After a bit, he started to look for “sea glass,” remembering how Cousin Elizabeth found some treasures the week before. The seaglass was really a pile of…

Here I am, just slightly older than Peanut Maximus, calling my grandma on the phone. My grandma lived across the driveway on the same farm, and after I ate lunch, when my brother and cousin went down for their nap, I would use the rotary phone with its lovely long…

Let’s just say that sending two kids off to college (one back for his third year, and one for the very first time) in the time span of one week felt like being run through a cheese grater repeatedly. This guy was there for it all, giving me 59 big…

The waves were rolling and crashing, but Mr. TOF and Cousin Elizabeth found so many beach treasures: super rare dark blue seaglass, enormous chunks of white seaglass, agates, and other wonderful things. Peanut Maximus was bouncing all around on boulders and throwing sticks and stones into the water as usual.…

Cousin Elizabeth only had a few days to spend at Camp Aunt Rachel before she had to be back for the start of her school, but we packed in as many things as we could in a very short bit of time. We made sure to get to the “roller…