Veggies taste so much better after they’ve had a little altitude.

On our way to church this morning, I was herding everyone into the van. Ms. CP was buckling herself into the backseat. I had just secured The Banana into her rear-facing carseat in the middle on the driver’s side, and I walked around the car to buckle in Mr. Perpetual…

He’s been up to his usual tricks. Can’t you just see the gleam in his eye!

It has been a bad day. It started out with profuse whining at the crack of dawn, and the whining never really did stop. Mr. Perpetual Mess was just devious from the get go, and managed to figure out how to climb over the gate I use to trap him…

The Banana has figured out the concept of attachment. She fulheartedly believes she should be attached to me at all times during her waking hours and can’t bear that I might be across the room, or even worse need to leave her alone in a room for a minute while…

1. Squishing the last half of the banana all over the table, kitchen counter and pajamas at breakfast. 2. Taking down the blinds on bedroom windows during “nap.” 3. Tipping over the child sized rocking chair in sister’s room and standing on it upside down to “jump into the river”…

It was a warm and somewhat muggy day, and in the late afternoon Ms. Crazy Preschooler got the idea of bringing out the hose to fill plastic buckets with water in the backyard. That soon changed to watering the bushes, creating mudpuddles, and playing thunderstorm, which was a wild drama…

Last Monday I drug out some of the big boxes from moving that I had been saving in the garage for the kidlets to play in and made them a box city, complete with a two room hospital, a church, a post office, a house and the all important dog…

Here are some of our recent reads, for the maybe three book lovers that read this blog: Grown Up Books Skylight Confessions by Alice Hoffman: I really like Alice Hoffman’s work. This book was not my very favorite novel she has written, but it was still a fun read, very…