Because sometimes teenagers are just . . . weird.  I love that about teenagers. In fact, I loved being a quirky, weird teenager.

Here’s a kidlet who I haven’t seen for three weeks because he was at music camp and then visited his grandparents.  He grew even more when he was away and came back sunburned, but happy.  (Being in control of the remote control at Grandma’s, as pictured above, also makes him…

The long driveway on Grandma and Grandpa’s farm is the perfect place to try driving for first time.  Yay!

My neighbor is a vet, and she has beautiful dogs.  My kidlets love to play with the dogs, especially our host child.   Last week they played fetch for what seemed like hours, so around supper time I called all the kidlets over and told them it was time to…

I’m only able to post a few pictures from our chilly evening on the windswept Secret Beach because of course most of the images include our host child.  The fall and spring windstorms on the Lake swept in a lot of beach glass, so searching in the rocks has been…

I learned that taking my two middle kidlets to the grocery store late at night can easily turn into a wild, hilarious affair!  It seems almost a little weird that taking my kids to the grocery store is not a taxing ordeal like it used to be.  It’s actually pretty…

The Banana is turning into a strong swimmer (she has an amazing butterfly stroke . . . I love watching it).  Last summer we didn’t have a chance to do swimming lessons, so this summer we jumped right in at the beginning of the summer when we had a few…

Last Friday was a perfect, calm day, so we brought out some fancy, thick watercolor paper and paint out to the deck to be creative.  I love that dragon with a taco, straight out of Dragons Love Tacos by Adam Rubin. 

Last weekend I drove my second kidlet to North Dakota to drop him off at International Music Camp.  It’s always fun to spend one on one time with this kid, and we had a fun, fast trip.  We started late in the day on Saturday and drove to Devils Lake,…

We visited the train museum.  We hadn’t been there for a long time, and it was a lot of fun.  One of my favorite parts of the train museum is the mail car, where you can climb up in the car and see how the mail was sorted and delivered…