How To Correctly Pronounce “Pacific Ocean” according to Mr. Sneaky Pants: “Specifica Sea.” It has a certain ring to it, doesn’t it?

The people who lived in our house before we bought it really, really loved day lillies.  We have oodles and oodles of them off the side of our house,  practically a field of daylillies, and the first ones are opening today.  

On warm summer afternoons, slurping frozen orange juice on a stick is the snack of choice around here.  I just freeze regular old orange juice in plastic popsicle molds ahead of time, and voila!  Happiness galore upon rising from afternoon naps.  I remember my grandmother coloring water with food coloring…

The other kidlets were off doing something special with Dr. Peds tonight, so The Banana and I decided to run to Target and the grocery store to take care of some necessary shopping.  She was so happy to stroll around Target and point out things that were of interest to…

We shared some of our favorite local places with our visiting friends during the first part of the week.  We visited the rocky beach, where all six kids squealed and ran around like crazy climbing the dark grey, sunwarmed boulders and had a fantastic time playing in the burbling waves…

We’ve been busy playing tourist in our own town with our North Dakota friends, who were here vacationing for the past four days or so.  I have lots to share, but for now, I’ll just leave you with   my favorite photograph of each of our friends during the past…

One of Mr. Sneaky Pants’ favorite activities lately has been playing baseball with Dad outside. It just makes me giggle how he has to stick his tongue out whenever he’s concentrating hard, just like Grandpa Ron.

Number One I started the day by jumping out of bed, into the shower, and zipping off to the other end of town for a quick dentist appointment.  I just needed to have my teeth cleaned, and an hour later I exited the dentist’s office with sparkling, smooth teeth, but…

These are actually from last week.  I just realized I forgot to share it.  The Banana was busy loving Daddy, who was freshly home from work.  

The Banana and I have been enjoying some special just-the-two-of-us time this weekend while the others are visiting cousins at Grandma Kathy and Papa Richard’s lake cabin.  While this notion sounds calm and peaceful, it has actually been frought with lots of temper tantrums and unhappiness due to the impending…