Someone is thrilled to be sitting up all on his own. He spends countless hours picking up this orange crocheted carrot and chewing on it.  He’s very proud of himself, and loves to be sitting right in the middle of a frenzy of activity.  He does NOT like to be…

YaYa said to me the other day, “Wouldn’t it be interesting if the conductor of the symphony or your choir heard the audience coughing and shifting around and got frustrated, turned around, and stomped his foot on the podium like this?”  She stood up, hunched up her back, clenched her…

How can you not love a girl that snuggles up next to you in the morning, and when you tell her you’d just like to snuggle with her all day, she looks at you sympathetically and says, “Mama, as soon as I get home from school we can snuggle all…

A sledding hill does not necessarily need to be long to be entertaining.  The kidlets have built a track that goes down the steep  front yard onto the sidewalk that sort of resembles a skateboard park.  They woosh down the super steep slope and down across the sidewalk, up the…

While I was in the kitchen cooking supper, Dr. Peds was going through an enormous pile of his mail while sitting next to the fireplace, and Mr. SP was a few feet away working on homework. Mr. SP:  I HATE this homework! Dr. Peds:  Well, what kind of homework would…

Squirmy has started to give snuggle hugs.  I love it. He’s a smiley guy, always looking around, hoping for some interesting commotion to happen.  He can sit up a bit with the help of a pillow. He can wiggle on the floor a bit.  He loves to put things in…

There was no school today, which means that after I got up and fed the baby, we crawled back in my bed for some snuggles, and before long he was dozing peacefully next to me and I was in the middle of a really good book.  That’s when the other…

Today The Banana exited her preschool classroom, thrilled to show me that it was her turn to bring home the show and share bag, a denim bag that makes its way home to our house tonight, so that The Banana can fill it with “a few items” that she can…

Ahhhh.  Yes.  Slave labor.  I love slave labor.  Even though I often have to fight major battles to enforce the completion of slave labor tasks, I still love slave labor.  I like being able to delegate more and more responsibility to my kidlets!  Wonderful!  Work is good for the soul!…

At 3:10 p.m. I searched the house to find each kidlet and document what they were doing today.  YaYa was intently building a fairy garden.  Squirmy was still napping.  Mr. SP was in the middle of his very, very messy room, making an even bigger mess. I’m sure the mess…