They are all getting a lot of practice using their persuasive skills.

In between the important acts of celebrating Easter, last weekend was all about building marble runs in the family room. I didn’t manage to capture an image of the most complex structure, which was an elevated track that stretched the full length of the room, starting up on the mantle…

This is our first true week of distance learning, where teachers are sending a larger load of assignments that need to be completed. This has made the computers in the house a hot commodity. It’s working quite well for my bigger kidlets, but I will say that Google classroom is…

There’s been quite a bit of Monopoly happening recently at our house. Mr. TOF loves Monopoly, and he’s always begging people to sit down for a lengthy board game with him. Usually he can convince about 2/3 of the family to join in. He puts up notices all around the…

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 I had forgotten this mechanical rule, and I was leaning on the “comma-conjunction rule,” forgetting it was superseded by the other rule, and made a lot of…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…