It was windy, which caused bubble making to be easy! Peanut Maximus had to try out every single differently colored bubble container. Even though it comes with some sacrifice and the need to have a lot of patience, sometimes I think the big kids in the family have more fun…

You never know what you might run into on the prairie. The drivers speeding past Grandma’s farm, might have been a little shocked about a platypus on a balance bike. Or maybe not shocked after all?

The Banana, Peanut Maximus and I took a quick road trip to North Dakota to visit Grandma Robbie on her farm, and along the way a little detour on the highway put us a couple of blocks south of the road we normally drive on, and we happened to spot…

Mr. TOF and Dr. Peds were driving back from a baseball trip, the Devious Snail was working, and The Banana was dead-to-the-world-asleep-in-her-bed after a highly successful rowing regatta in Kenora, Ontario, so it was just Peanut Maximus who came to the beach. “Just me and you, mom,” he said. We…

We are so fortunate to live in the middle of two houses with amazing gardeners on each side of us. It’s like living in a park! Unfortunately they both have to look out their windows at our chaos! In the past few years both neighbors have been featured on different…

Every year Dr. Peds and his family gather together at a cabin for a weekend together. The cabin they have been going to for the last couple of years happens to be equidistant from our house to the city that Mr. TOF’s baseball team was having their regional play-offs at,…

It has been a summer full of baseball for Mr. TOF, playing on multiple teams and umping for the local Little League. In fact, there has been baseball of some sort or another happening almost every day for months and months. There was also a lot of traveling involved in…

We traded Cousin Katherine for Cousin Nathaniel as our camper for Camp Aunt Rachel. It was another week filled with obligations to work around, but we managed to squeeze some fun activities in, like trips to the beach to hunt for beach glass, a visit to the candy store up…

Cousin Nathaniel was visiting for Camp Aunt Rachel Session Two, so we let him pick which beach to visit on Sunday Night. He chose the Secret Beach, which always has good opportunities for beach glass hunting. He and Mr. TOF managed to fill a small container with their treasures. It…

When it gets hot In my city, people head to the beaches. As a city, we don’t handle heat well because it doesn’t get hot that often. But there’s always a few hot days every summer, and everyone copes by going down to the cold, cold water. Tonight my neighbor…