Last Saturday the chamber orchestra from The Banana’s middle school treated holiday shoppers at the mall to some Christmas music. YaYa came along with our host daughter to watch the orchestra play Christmas carols, and then we headed to a store to look at earrings before lunch and a little…

Last Thursday afternoon Mr. Trouble on Feet’s third grade class was making gingerbread houses. Parents were invited to join the mayhem to help their favorite student. At first I was not planning on going because we were having a tremendously busy week, and our host daughter had just arrived from…