It’s been a long time since I’ve needed to memorize choir music.  In college we rehearsed each day and memorized everything, but in the high quality choirs I have sung in for the past fifteen years or more, we have had long rehearsals each week, but only once a week.…

Grandma Kathy always saves the comic section from the Sunday paper and gifts a stack of them to the kidlets when she visits.  It’s such a simple act of thoughtful love, and the kidlets just love sitting down and reading these.

It was chaos and fun, and more chaos!  I don’t know how Cousin Elizabeth made it into almost every single one of the Thanksgiving pictures, except, she really is so precious and irresistible, that it doesn’t really surprise me!  There were many family members that my camera did not manage…

Between the people that live here and the parts of Dr. Peds’ family who were visiting for Thanksgiving weekend, we had more than twenty people coming and going many times over multiple days.  Amidst all the big and profound things I was thankful for this Thanksgiving, I was also especially…

The Banana chose to take orchestra in middle school.  Since she’s been playing the violin for a while, her teachers have been having her help other students who have their instruments in hand for the first time figure out how to hold and play their violins.  Beginning orchestra moves pretty…

I like the month of November a lot, but this November has been more than slightly chaotic!  Goodness gracious.  I can hardly believe we are two thirds through the month already.  We seem to have flown from one stressful, out-of-the-ordinary event to the next, all month long. This week we…

He said to me, “Mom, sometimes when I wake up, my room smells like a dead animal.”

It’s true that I demanded that these three kidlets join me for a hike at Hartley last Saturday.  They complained and some of them stomped their feet getting to the car, but in the end they had a really great time tromping through the forest.  They were full of zest…

Halloween was super crazy around here, sandwiched in between oboe, violin, viola, youth group for some kidlets in the house, and other such matters.  Who decided to put Halloween on a Wednesday anyway?!?  On our way home from violin/viola, we picked up The Banana’s friend to go trick or treating.…

You can order replacement lids for your Pyrex glass storage bowls!  (I got mine from Amazon). Those bowls get a workout in our house, and we had managed to loose almost all the lids.  I’m so happy to have new lids.  In fact, now I even have spare lids.  I’m…