My husband’s brother gifted us with a deep tissue massage gun, and it is amazing! Even Mr. TOF loves to use it on his baseball muscles. It remarkably loosens up muscles. I love it on my shoulders, on my feet, even in my fleshy thumb muscle. I really enjoyed watching…

Sometimes the things I end up saying make me shake my head. Who would ever have thought I’d be hollering “You are NOT going to be until I have read you a poem!” or “Get down here RIGHT NOW or I’m going to let your brother eat your food!”

The Banana and I waited as long as we could for Mr. TOF to finish with baseball tryouts (for a special team), but when the sun started sinking, we left him some food to eat when he got home, and we headed to the beach without him. The Banana decided…

On Monday these fun and fabulous local National History Day qualifiers (Can you believe that there are FIVE of them!!!!) got to meet the mayor, who was a National History Day qualifier herself when she was a student. They had a great conversation outside city hall. It was fun to…

It’s summer! It has been a strange beginning to summer this year because we had really warm weather really early, and it actually felt weird to still have kidlets bogged down with school when the temperatures were HOT (so hot it felt miserable). But, this week is the first week…

These two. They are really something.

We’ve known for a few weeks that The Banana’s History Day project qualified for national competition when she placed first at the state competition. It has been so exciting. Well, so exciting, and for a bit also so stressful, as there were many revisions to do in a short time…

It was the fourth day of a multiple day heat wave, and by the time it was time to leave for the beach, I had gotten cranky. Really, everyone was cranky by that point, but I was especially cranky. We do not tolerate heat well. I especially do not tolerate…

I am NOT loving the incredibly intense and unseasonable heat wave we have been suffering under for the last few days, but I AM loving the east wind that blew in across The Lake late this afternoon causing the temperature to literally plummet 40 degrees in 15 minutes from 97…