Sarah was invited to a birthday party for one of the girls in her kindergarten class. This was a very, very big deal. It was so important she could hardly eat her lunch. Sarah spent an hour and a half waiting in the “cabin room” with her present for Sofia…

I am so excited about the puzzles we gave our kids for Christmas this year. You might have noticed Sarah’s puzzle featured in my blog banner. Her puzzle is a round circle with intricate small pieces in multiple colors that can be placed together inside or outside of the wooden…

Words we can say: Mama (if she’s extremely desparate) Words we can sign: eat more milk hat coat shoes done more eat. more eat. more eat. more eat. (The girl really loves her food, let me tell you) In other news, we went to tuck her into bed last night…

This week The Banana has fallen in love with the act of putting on her big brothers tennis shoes over her own pair of leather inside toddler shoes. Often she gets one shoe on just fine, and then gets very frustrated with the other one. Most of the time they…

It was nearly lunchtime last Saturday. We were sitting on the futon, contemplating what to eat, watching the squirrels frolic in the snow out the window. Greg: Maybe we should catch one of those squirrels and eat it for lunch. Mr. Sneaky Pants: No Dad! They’re WAY too crunchy!

Several family members have been railing me with emails and letters, concerned that our financial situation is in shambles and we cannot afford to heat our home, and that we are neglecting our children, depriving them of a warm environment. So I’m taking a small moment to publicly clarify that…

Eating whole apples has been quite the rage around here. Usually I cut them into eighths with the apple cutter. The morning light downstairs was beautiful this morning, and Mr. Sneaky Pants was telling the robot in my camera all about his apple and his imaginary sick bluebird.

Greg has found an amazing bread store not far away. We are very excited about this, because ever since we moved away from Bismarck, we have all been missing The Bread Poets bakery terribly. Although I haven’t actually been in our local bread store, I CAN attest that the bread…

Upon clomping in the door after school yesterday, Sarah settled in at the table with a chocolate chip cookie. Usually I only convince them to have healthy snacks after school, but the cookies were very yummy, so they got to splurge a bit. She was full of stories about their…

It has been bone chilling cold. So cold, in fact, that I turned up the heat to 60 degrees to compensate for the lack of insulation in our house. On Sunday morning, when it got well below -20 degrees outside, our normal thermostat settings just weren’t cutting it, and I…