I had a birthday earlier this month, and it was a very busy day.  One kid had an oboe lesson.  One kid had a violin lesson. I had a cello lesson.  Dr. Peds was working at the hospital.  We didn’t really have time to do a lot of celebrating, but…

On Thursdays he comes home from school and is the only kidlet home for the first hour because The Banana is at math club, and the bigger kidlets are still in school.  This means he has an entire half hour before I start teaching to verbally expunge everything that happened…

No I am not dead. I have however, conquered the post office!  My Christmas cards have been mailed.  The packages traveling to long distance friends and family have almost all been mailed.  Hooray.  It’s been hanging over my head for multiple days, and I’m so glad that it’s done, even…

This was probably the warmest year ever for Christmas cutting day.  It was almost a little disconcerting.  We had so much snow during the last part of October and November, but over the last 10 days our temperatures have been in the lower 40’s, and almost all of the snow…

Even if it is icy, you can’t go to the beach and leave your boots on.  Baby Cousin Elizabeth didn’t want to be left out either. Critter in the Candy:  a family board game tradition that just keeps going. Who doesn’t love a board game with a popper, right?

All the pictures I have from Mr. SP’s birthday visit to the trampoline park with cousins are of the climbing walls!  Perhaps that’s because I was so busy jumping on the trampolines myself that I didn’t manage to actually capture anyone else jumping.  I figured that if I was going…

The afternoon of Thanksgiving Eve I made four pies.  Two pies were going to church.  Two pies were staying home.  Two pies were standard delicious pumpkin pies.  Two pies were an experimental cream pie, which ended up being sweet and edible, but not my favorite, even though they looked kind…

Surprise!  The Cousins came for Mr. SP’s thirteenth birthday!  We began the day with bagels and cream cheese in the bathtub.  Isn’t it remarkable how many cousins can fit in one tub?  It was a wiggle fest. Midmorning we headed to the new trampoline park.  We hadn’t been there before,…