• Kitchen Sunlight

    Right around the time change, which also happens to be right around the spring equinox, the setting sun starts peeking through the dining room window in a way that illuminates the side of the kitchen where the sink and dishwasher sit. Our kitchen sits in the exact middle of our…

  • Surgical

    I came home from a long walk and heard soft, songlike muttering in the kitchen. when I rounded the corner, no one was there except for The Banana, who was nestled in a corner with a container of strawberries and a pairing knife. She was sweet talking the strawberries that…

  • Cheerful

    Here are three things making The Banana very happy these days: In person school has started! She was so excited that she got to go to school this week for two mornings. Soon she will be able to go for more days each week. This girl thrives off of interaction…

  • Dental Accident

    Thursday night I was sitting on the couch reading. The Banana was finishing some school next to me. Dr. Peds was sitting across the room searching for things on his phone. Suddenly the Devious Snail came down the stairs and sheepishly entered the piano room. “Uhm, so I was playing…

  • Learned in February

    Thanks to The Banana’s History Day project, I now know more about Guglielmo Marconi’s wireless telegraph and the Wireless Ship Act of 1910 than I ever thought possible. History Day is so educational, and so, so much work. The Banana has been working for weeks and week and weeks nonstop…