• What I Learned in May

    Instacart!  Oh my goodness gracious!  I’ve hated grocery shopping for years and years.  For our anniversary that we celebrated this month, along with many other wonderful gifts,  my husband gifted me with a year’s subscription to Instacart.  Someone at work had just shown him this amazing online grocery delivery app,…

  • Problem Solving

    He wanted to practice pitching, but everyone was very busy taking care of other things, so he took an extra baseball glove, stuck it on a rod, attached it to a tree and put home plate underneath it.  Aha!  A target to pitch at.  

  • A Harry Potter Fan

    A few weeks ago I read the first Harry Potter book to Mr. Trouble on Feet, and then, because I had told all the other kidlets that they could read Harry Potter when they could read the books on their own, I told Mr. TOF that he could silently read…

  • Persuasion

    The Banana had a middle school orchestra concert this last week.  In the car on the way home, she suggested that we stop at the grocery store to get ice cream.  “We need ice cream, Mom, to celebrate that I’m your firstborn third child.” I laughed so hard that I…

  • Baseball

    His first baseball practice outside on the field is tomorrow, and he can’t wait! However, since we are getting a surprise snowstorm, I suspect it might be rescheduled. Nevertheless, this boy is ready!  He’s been out with his glove every day for weeks on end, tossing and catching, tossing and catching.  Baseball…

  • A Stack of Comics

    Grandma Kathy was here for the weekend, and she brought a stack of Sunday comics that she had been saving from her newspaper.  Everyone here loves to read the comics, so there were happy kidlets in the house.  It’s such a fun tradition that she saves them and brings them.…