We have waited years to tear out the carpet in our family room and put new flooring in. We debated for years about what kind of flooring to install: Tile? Wood? A mixture? A few months ago we decided it was time for action. The carpet in that room was…

Last weekend a group of women from our church drove up to Adventurous Christians, a small camp close to Canada. We were joined by a group of women from another church in town, (and there was also a group of dads and their kids staying for the weekend as well).…

I love a good picture book, and so do my kidlets, who are now big kidlets. I think illustrated books are for people of all ages. Here are some of our recent favorites: Douglas by Randy Cecil: This is a lovely story, and the illustrations are terrific, so many details!…

It’s Wednesday, which means I am hauling kids to all sorts of places, and waiting in the car during YaYa’s oboe lesson. At least I get some reading done in snatches here and there. I’m on a quest to better my poor attitude about driving kidlets to this place and…

At the piano I learned the middle movement of a Beethoven Sonata. I have been working on the Sarabande from Bach’s G Major Suite for Cello (obviously, on the cello!) but I’m not finished learning it yet. I learned that when the temperature rises wind instruments go sharp, BUT string…

A picture really doesn’t do justice to the tall plow grades on every street this winter. Because we got so much snow all at once at the beginning of winter, the sides of the streets have been full of snow piles for weeks and weeks. The snow was rained on…

Observation from Mr. TOF: “If you are small you can fit into a lot of cracks. But if you are tall you can, like, reach a pie.”

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted about what I’ve been reading! I have so many books to talk about that I’ve decided to divide them up a bit into multiple posts rather than one long one. I’ve read a lot of mediocre YA books in the last few…

All throughout the fall and early winter I’ve been waiting outside YaYa’s oboe lesson alone. But for the next few weeks, Mr. TOF has robotics after school, so I pick him up after I drop off YaYa at oboe, and then we wait in the car until she’s done. This…

The truth of the matter is that I have such vivid memories of having test anxiety from my days as a student that I even feel anxious when I know people in my house are preparing for finals! The Devious Snail is happy his finals are over, and so am…