This week we had our first very hard freeze.  It’s much earlier than normal for us here next to the Big Lake, but it happened nonetheless, and while it has been met with a bit of wistfulness and shock (it was so very warm just a few days ago)  it…

It happened a couple of days before her birthday, of course, that The Banana had her first day of preschool for this school year.  She had been waiting fervently since the last day of preschool in the fall.  Suffice it to say that my social girl thrives at preschool.  She…