I was reading something last Tuesday that referenced the fact it happened to be “Hug Your Cat Day.”  The Devious Snail was deviously reading over my shoulder, and what he saw on the computer screen inspired him to run downstairs, scoop up Brutus and give him a hug.  I decided…

We had a little bit of extra time to work with last Sunday evening, so we decided to head just a bit out of town to the northeast and explore the mouth of the French River.  There have been so many big storms throughout the fall, winter and spring seasons…

Instacart!  Oh my goodness gracious!  I’ve hated grocery shopping for years and years.  For our anniversary that we celebrated this month, along with many other wonderful gifts,  my husband gifted me with a year’s subscription to Instacart.  Someone at work had just shown him this amazing online grocery delivery app,…

He wanted to practice pitching, but everyone was very busy taking care of other things, so he took an extra baseball glove, stuck it on a rod, attached it to a tree and put home plate underneath it.  Aha!  A target to pitch at.  

A few weeks ago I read the first Harry Potter book to Mr. Trouble on Feet, and then, because I had told all the other kidlets that they could read Harry Potter when they could read the books on their own, I told Mr. TOF that he could silently read…

The Banana had a middle school orchestra concert this last week.  In the car on the way home, she suggested that we stop at the grocery store to get ice cream.  “We need ice cream, Mom, to celebrate that I’m your firstborn third child.” I laughed so hard that I…

Some days there is so much going on, so many people in the family going so many different places, that your head cannot help but to feel like it’s spinning.  This last Saturday afternoon there was simply so much going on here at home that my head could not help…